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This has gotten to be an interesting thread. We have primarily proponents and supporters of the sales tax idea and we can't come up with anything to satisfy the various interests here and to the compromises needed for the proponents to unite.
The "why should athletes get special consideration" crowd would jump all over this. Put 20K butts in seats in Cessna at $40 a pop for a chess match and I'll gladly support scholarships for chess players.
The same people who would never support any type of tax for athletic programs are the ones who spend $140 for a pair of tennis shoes without realizing that $40 of that is going to some college athletic program to pay for scholarships there. Advertising is a really sneaky form of taxation.
Alex Rodriguez makes hundreds of millions of dollars because of his outstanding ability to hit a ball with a stick. That irritates Joe Citizen so much that he won't support college athletics in order to show his solidarity with those who say ARod makes too much money.
In fact, while watching the Yankees on his LG plasma TV, with a feed from his bundled communications provider, and wearing his Nike sneakers, and downing another Budweiser, which he just picked up in his new Toyota, which he insures with Geico because anyone who advertises that much certainly has the lowest rates, Joe Citizen would grab his iPhone and call his buddy using his AT&T wireless network to rally support for the "no tax money for WSU athletics" because it's just not right to keep feeding these athletes all that money, while his little Suzy can't afford to go to college.
I'm much too big a fan of irony.
The "why should athletes get special consideration" crowd would jump all over this. Put 20K butts in seats in Cessna at $40 a pop for a chess match and I'll gladly support scholarships for chess players.
The same people who would never support any type of tax for athletic programs are the ones who spend $140 for a pair of tennis shoes without realizing that $40 of that is going to some college athletic program to pay for scholarships there. Advertising is a really sneaky form of taxation.
Alex Rodriguez makes hundreds of millions of dollars because of his outstanding ability to hit a ball with a stick. That irritates Joe Citizen so much that he won't support college athletics in order to show his solidarity with those who say ARod makes too much money.
In fact, while watching the Yankees on his LG plasma TV, with a feed from his bundled communications provider, and wearing his Nike sneakers, and downing another Budweiser, which he just picked up in his new Toyota, which he insures with Geico because anyone who advertises that much certainly has the lowest rates, Joe Citizen would grab his iPhone and call his buddy using his AT&T wireless network to rally support for the "no tax money for WSU athletics" because it's just not right to keep feeding these athletes all that money, while his little Suzy can't afford to go to college.
I'm much too big a fan of irony.
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