To be honest, the amount of leverage and opportunity that some teams have when it comes to the lower tax rates that players have to pay is completely bullshit. To have some sort of parity between these mega franchises in desirable climates and tax brackets, and a franchise like the Toronto Raptors, where there’s much more tax that needs to be paid.
There needs to be more done by the league to give opportunity to teams that don’t have any control of that factor.
Honestly bro let them have it. These low income tax states have a little brother mentality, and if you don’t baby them they’ll shit all over the place
Do most NBA players even live in the city they play in? They’re traveling most of the year anyway, so their actual homes are in desirable cities like LA, Miami, and New York.
Should the salary cap also depend on the size of the market then? California has some of the highest tax burden but LA is still a very attractive destination for players.
California is an incredible place to make money.
You Parity Bois gotta stop with all this crybaby shit.
No one wants to live in your backwards ass cities.
Nobody wants you in their city
The NBA will never be able to level disparities between market and its already the most regulated sports league in the world.
Because the players clearly don’t care about it. And its reductive to just look at state and local taxes as your point of comparison. If there are no state taxes they get you on property or sales or other taxes. That money doesn’t just come from no where.
What are you doing here? You know taxes aren’t just stolen money, right?
You know taxes pay for the infrastructure and everything that goes along with that in the region. You get what you pay for.
Smh how old are you or how dumb are you?
Many players claim permanent residence in no-income-tax jurisdictions like Florida and Texas already. It doesn’t affect the tax paid on playing salaries, but endorsement income, outside investments that are considered ordinary income etc wouldn’t be taxed.
If taxes was the main focus for players, the LA teams and the Warriors would struggle to recruit free agents since California’s state income tax is 12.3% at the top end. Shockingly, players take other factors into consideration, too.
Should we take in consideration which states have highway tolls too?
This makes no sense. You’d have to factor in RSN deals, cost of living indexes, as well as elective withholding on personal tax returns. You tried to be a smartass but you’re too dumb to realize this is a horrible idea
We should also force more populated markets to relocate their surplus of citizens and corporations to less populated and less corporately occupied markets. /S
Players have passed on playing in Dallas for years with their state tax, yet players continue to go to NY and CA who have some of the highest state tax and higher cost of living.
This might be one of the worst takes I have seen on the sub