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French Soccer Clubs to Strike over 75% Tax Rate

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[/h]French footballers will go out on strike for the first time in more than 40 years next month in protest at a government plans to tax top earners 75 percent, the clubs announced Thursday.French Soccer Clubs to Strike over 75% Tax Rate

If the 75% tax becomes law, that's the end of the French league. It will become a B-League. Who would want to play there? I can see players feigning injuries just so they don't have to play for discount rates. Why risk your career?

Monaco will have a run of championships as far as the eye can see, and I can see clauses being written into contracts that prohibit being traded to a tax hostile country like France, unless the club in question ups their salary to the point they make the same after tax income as in England let's say... and no club can afford that.
 
Offshore it.
That is; Locate the club where the French Gov can't touch their earnings
 
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If the 75% tax becomes law, that's the end of the French league. It will become a B-League. Who would want to play there? I can see players feigning injuries just so they don't have to play for discount rates. Why risk your career?

Monaco will have a run of championships as far as the eye can see, and I can see clauses being written into contracts that prohibit being traded to a tax hostile country like France, unless the club in question ups their salary to the point they make the same after tax income as in England let's say... and no club can afford that.


So now you're pro-union? :lamo
 
So now you're pro-union? :lamo
In two posts, only minutes apart, you reveal how fundamentally dishonest you are.

I stated the high taxes will hurt French soccer.
Tell me... why do governments tax smokes and alcohol highly? What is the goal?

What will the result be when someone taxes professional athletes at ridiculous rates?
Will they want to stay?
Will they want to risk injury?
Will they be attracted to play in France?

You try too hard to ascribe positions to people they didn't support, but what can you expect from a Lib? They're fundamentally dishonest.
 
In two posts, only minutes apart, you reveal how fundamentally dishonest you are.

I stated the high taxes will hurt French soccer.
Tell me... why do governments tax smokes and alcohol highly? What is the goal?

What will the result be when someone taxes professional athletes at ridiculous rates?
Will they want to stay?
Will they want to risk injury?
Will they be attracted to play in France?

You try too hard to ascribe positions to people they didn't support, but what can you expect from a Lib? They're fundamentally dishonest.

Fundamentally dishonest? That would be you. You must be a Lib.

If they're going on strike, that's a union action, isn't it? So do you support the union or not?

Taxing smokes and alchohol is to bring in more revenue. They know most people aren't going to quit because of it. Tax breaks should be for those that bring a net gain to society. Say someone who "creates jobs." What is the gain to society of pro athletes? Do they create jobs? Many of them are highly involved in charity, but that's not a requirement, many are not.

French soccer wasn't exactly the Premier League or Serie A anyway.
 
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