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| Thread ID: 88940 | 2008-04-15 11:02:00 | Tax Breaks For Top Rugby Players | Winston001 (3612) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 659058 | 2008-04-15 13:50:00 | It just shows what a twisted world we have created - sportsmen are overpaid as it is - in fact don't refer to them as sportsmen - they are paid entertainers, with grossly inflated ideas of their own importance. They are where they are because they were picked for a national team, and in NZ there is as much Rugby talent that goes begging for lack of an opportunity to show their mettle in a top provincial teams, because the squad is selected and contracted, and thus no vacancies. If they go, there is plenty of potential talent to take their place. In the past 40 years just think of the times the All Blacks stumbled, that produced the openings to admit new blood into the national squad and so reinvigorate the team to further rugby triumphs. |
KenESmith (6287) | ||
| 659059 | 2008-04-15 15:29:00 | Sheesh Ken.. most NZ'ers thrive on our sports, either as participants or as specatators. Given the modern era of proffessional sports, and the stimulation and incentive it gives to our youngsters to a healthy lifestyle, the incentive to earn money from sports has got to be a good thing. Besides... if our national teams want to compete in an international arena, there is no option but to make their incentives well paid. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 659060 | 2008-04-15 21:29:00 | I agree. However I would want the same tax breaks too. I, like a lot of young professionals such as doctors, architects etc, are off overseas where we can earn a lot more. What is being done to stop us leaving, absolutely nothing. I are in agreeance too. Me no be payed too much, govt take heap big money from my second job. I'll just be the grammar nazi here... hypocratic as it may be. Just to be difficult. (I'm taking a page out of roscoe's and cicero's respective books) But screw rugby players, they often have several paying jobs with their regional, super 14 and all blacks teams. not to mention whatever else they have on the side. Not to mention their being treated as if they're gods. If that's not enough to keep them here, then who cares? |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 659061 | 2008-04-15 21:54:00 | I dont mind them getting paid for playing sport, but HELL NO! to a tax break. When a player no longer becomes an AB option then by all means go overseas, but to do so mid career and want to come back to the black jersey is sacrilege. If I was president of the NZRU I would let them go, the money saved put towards fostering up talent here to ensure their skill level matches or exceeds those that leave. I would make it so selection of AB's is based on form playing here in NZ. I would make going overseas an option that would eventually result in their last harrah, no one is indispensable. |
sam m (517) | ||
| 659062 | 2008-04-15 22:09:00 | All Blacks should indeed be tax exempt, since they should be unpaid if they wish to be classed as sportsmen. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 659063 | 2008-04-15 22:26:00 | Am I correct in assuming that there are those present who believe that rugby players should get tax concessions? I will leave it to Billy T to explain the folly of that thinking. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 659064 | 2008-04-15 22:54:00 | And about time too - great idea - nz.sports.yahoo.com How are we going to stop these guys leaving the country otherwise? The big pockets overseas are too much for the NZRFU so I reckon tax breaks are the least they can expect. It might just be enough to retain our top players. what was this guy smoking when he came up with this idea?? since when did rugby help the nation? its a sport and nothing more. will having the best rugby players help the education system? will having the best rugby players help the health system? why should we give tax breaks for people who run around in the mud. if someone said "tax breaks for doctors" then I would be all for it, but this is just a random brain fart. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 659065 | 2008-04-15 23:02:00 | Come on you guys, think outside the square . This is a cultural issue . There is always a generic need for engineers, teachers etc but they come and they go . Their value is general and not specific to New Zealand . However rugby excellence defines us as a nation, it is a core part of our culture, an art form writ large upon the world stage . There is only one Daniel Carter - if we lose him, that is a loss to our nation . We place a huge emotional value on the Victoria Crosses which were recently stolen, yet replicas can be made and their history can never be sold or lost . Carter and Howlett cannot be made into replicas . . . . . |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 659066 | 2008-04-15 23:46:00 | Winston... you surely have got to be taking the piss. We hear the same crying speel from footie fans of every generation and yet the good players keep rolling out of the woodwork. If these money hungry bastards want to go overseas - let them. If their employers want them to have even more money to keep them then let them pay them more. Contempt for the proposer of this nonesense..............:mad: | Scouse (83) | ||
| 659067 | 2008-04-15 23:48:00 | Its stupid why give tax breaks to those that simply play a game of sport every now and then? Why not give tax cuts to the hard working everyday person? Plus what's so important about rugby anyway. If you are willing to give tax breaks to rugby players what about the rest of New Zealand's top sports people, who generally earn a lot less in the first place? If they don't care enough about NZ to stay then why should we give them any extra. I mean its not like they generally need more money anyway they earn enough as it is. |
stormdragon (6013) | ||
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