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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Lawmaker To Introduce Bill To End NFL’s Tax-Exempt Status Because Of Redskins Name

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) announced Tuesday that she will introduce legislation to eliminate the NFL’s tax-exempt status because of its refusal to address the name of the Washington Redskins.

Flanked by several tribal chiefs, Cantwell, who is the former chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, condemned the team’s name as a slur against Native Americans.

“The NFL needs to join the rest of Americans in the 21st century,” she said. “It is about right and wrong.”

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16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh yes lets change the NFL's tax-exempt status because they hurt someones feelings.....but in the same breath lets continue to allow terrorists groups like Cair to keep theirs.

Anonymous said...

thats called "retaliation" and its illegal.

Anonymous said...

Bite me Cantwell!
Don't you have anything better to do???

Anonymous said...

The rampant problems in this country and these clowns work on this!

Anonymous said...

Rush said the NFL is under full scale attack.

Anonymous said...

Why are they tax exempt anyway? What a crock.

Anonymous said...

Vote her out.

Anonymous said...

I'm still laughing at the Cover Girl ad.A whole lot of other folks are pissed.

Anonymous said...

4:28 Why are churches?

Ben in Salisbury said...

Don't think they need to be tax exempt but I 100% believe another idiot from Washington will spend more money on this crap

Anonymous said...

I do believe the NFL should not be tax exempt. But when they are no longer tax exempt they can tell the libtards to screw off!

Anonymous said...

The individual teams are NOT tax exempt, just the NFL acting as an umbrella organization. The NFL itself does not make any profit and distributes revenues from licensed products, films, etc. to the individual teams. You better believe the teams and team owners pay taxes.

Anonymous said...

"4:28 Why are churches?"

Because a certain bunch of ministers like Jackson and the other black guy depend on all the Government assisted revenue they can get.

Anonymous said...

5:04 - because once upon a time America was not filled with so many atheists such as yourself.

Anonymous said...

her high school's team is the redskins. goggle her name then google high school

Anonymous said...

Of course it's a Democrat sponsoring this bill.

Are there any readers on here who are registered Democrats that are Ok with the Redskins name?