Owners like Steve Ballmer can take the kinds of deductions on team assets — everything from media deals to player contracts — that industrialists take on factory equipment. That helps them pay lower…

If you want to dunk on people defending this, see:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/og6ryc/the_billionaire_playbook_how_sports_owners_use/

    • BelovedOldFriend [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      No but they both like the new soccer team and that's enough to associate them in my mind. Soccer is the game of white-collar tech and other PMC-types; I mean they built the stadium where most of the tech companies' offices are. It's not really there for most of Austin, IMO; it's there for the Silicon Valley transplants.

      • comi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Ah, american soccer would be more “pmc” sport, gotcha.

        Tbh, I understand frustration, people have weird quirks, it’s like search for one true leftist :meow-cactus: