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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (320563)	1/14/2007 12:21:23 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576628

But ignoring that and looking at players who do make more in three years then most people do in a lifetime - Yes it is acceptable to me. Its rich guy A (the player) getting paid by mega-rich guy B (the owner) because his services have a positive return for B. I have no problem with such a contract arrangement. You don't......even though taxpayers are footing the bill for the rich owner. Frankly, you sound like a communist to me.......or at least an oligarch. Its not pretty. </i. Now you're really getting bizarrer. I'm a communist because I support the right to contract and oppose the government directly or indirectly putting in place wage/price controls... Yes, and I am referring to the communists under the old Soviet Union. They too worked it so that the rich oligarchs benefited at the expense of the poor. You are saying its perfectly all right for rich owners to pay their players huge salaries and charge ticket prices only the well off can afford while taxpayers foot the bill for a portion of their overhead. If that doesn't sound like cheesy Soviet economics, I don't know what does. The more I communicate with you the more I see that you are more concerned with protecting the wealth of the very rich rather than following sound economics. Its why your party is in so much trouble now. Show me how most of A-Rod's salary for the years he has played for the Yankee's came from the government? You can't because it hasn't. But even if Stienbrenner got the money from the government, that's no reason to limit A-Rod's or Jeter's salary. Tim, now you are bordering on the disgusting. You think its perfectly all right to subsidize A-Rod's ridiculous salary with gov't money??? Amazing, just amazing.....its taken six years for the truth to start coming out. If the money comes from the government, then protest the government giving the money to the owner. I'll join you in protest. But the fact that the owner might have gotten the money from the government doesn't give the government the duty or even the right to control the recipents lives or limit the pay of his employees (except as part of the agreement spelled out in the contract). On the contrary, it gives the gov't more right than it bothers to take.........an example of collusion between a private party and the gov't at the expense of the taxpayer. I know you don't understand but that's a form of corruption.