Bill Maher: Americans must realize what makes NFL football so great: socialism.

[Martinghoul]

Quote from Petsamo:
Only that sentence was inaccurate.

Maybe you meant that his family originally came from Africa... No worries, either way.

 

[Pekelo]

Quote from Petsamo:

Yea, you're a leftist like Obama who doesn't know how to run a city or country.

As compared to most municipalities what are almost bankrupt and they are ran by capitalists.

 

[Pekelo]

Quote from Petsamo:

Where's the socialism in the huge disparity in players' salaries?

You are obviously unaware that teams can carry forward savings from the salarycap. They get the same cap, the same amount in the long run.

Also there is no HUGE disparity between 310 and 312K.

 

[Pekelo]

Quote from Hello:


Why dont you look at how much the cowboys net per season, and how much the texans net per season....

You make the claim, you post the data, simple as it is. I have just proved that more than 2/3 of the revenue is shared.....

The hotdog vendor has nothing to do with it, Maher never mentioned it, stop using strawmen.....

 

[Petsamo]

Quote from Pekelo:
there is no HUGE disparity between 310 and 312K.

You missed the huge disparity between the top paid and the lowest paid player. That's 16.2 million and 310 K, respectively.

 

[Petsamo]

Quote from Pekelo:
As compared to most municipalities what are almost bankrupt and they are ran by capitalists.

Ah no ... Illinois has a near bankrupt state due to union teachers pensions, and Illinois is run by a bunch Democrat wealth redistribution loony tunes.

 

[RCG Trader]

Quote from Petsamo:

You bunch of leftist wackos! There are plenty of capitalist arguments (contra-socialism).

1. The players earn their pay according to merit, not affirmative action. There's huge disparity in compensation among each player.
2. We have trickle-down economics, where the little guys can sell hot dogs, beer, etc and get paid. On the outside, sports bars benefit.
3. Fox gets $3 million for each 30 second ad.
4. If the players' unions go on strike, the bad side effects are felt in few areas; it doesn't affect the general population. Tax payers are not affected.

1 & 3 above are huge.

Not a bad refutation, now if you could just check your emotions.....getting emotional during an objective debate is....well.....

 

[RCG Trader]

Quote from Hello:

I was actually going to say the same thing, if anything the NFL is a bunch of teams acting in collusion with each other to make sure they maintain their monopoly, and look out for their own best interests. The NFL operates more like a limited partnership.

+1

 

[RCG Trader]

Quote from Lucrum:

It looks to me as if they have, in spades.

So far, so good

The idea is to promote debate. I am a pure capitalist in a manner that might make even you ill, Lucrum. I am a social darwinist. Even so, I know that attitude will never work in society. So, I remain a bemused observer.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from RCG Trader:

So far, so good

The idea is to promote debate. I am a pure capitalist in a manner that might make even you ill, Lucrum. I am a social darwinist. Even so, I know that attitude will never work in society. So, I remain a bemused observer.