Allow me to piss you off with a glance at a pro athlete pay stub.

[Kblaze8855]

4 year old leaked paystub from a baseball player. A few things to remember...


This is a single pay period of two weeks. May 1st to 15th 2015. NBA players get paid the same way unless they request it differently. Every two weeks. They pay state taxes in every state the NBA has a team just like this guy did for baseball.

Some do a lump sum payment instead. Kobe one year requested the league max 80% of his pay in one payment in November. So he got a 24 million dollar check then smaller ones for the rest of the year.

This guy was on a 6 year 51 million dollar deal so by NBA standards hes like...CJ Miles. This is not a bigshot contract in the NBA. NBA stars would wipe their ass with his check. Lebron, Steph, and Durant...all of them make 3-4 times what he does...plus all 3 of them make more money off the court than they do on it.

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Now go to bed so you can get up and go to work for peanuts. Should have been shooting in the gym in high school instead of chasing hoes or playing halo.

[AngelEyes]

Andrew McCutchen has actually been underpaid throughout his career. He was an MVP caliber player for several years and in MLB that usually pays at least 25 million a year.

[Spurs m8]

Athletes that earn millions have pay stubs which reflect this....well i never

[Kblaze8855]

Andrew McCutchen has actually been underpaid throughout his career. He was an MVP caliber player for several years and in MLB that usually pays at least 25 million a year.


I am aware of him but knew many wouldnt be. It feels like hes been around forever but hes in his early 30s.

[tpols]

let's tax em up.

redistribution time.

[Kblaze8855]

Athletes that earn millions have pay stubs which reflect this....well i never


Its the details that interest me.

He paid a 9800 dollar professional athlete fee....

Id love to know where exactly that goes.

[eliteballer]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/21/world-26-richest-people-own-as-much-as-poorest-50-per-cent-oxfam-report

Maybe the commies had it right.

[Kblaze8855]

let's tax em up.

redistribution time.


Look at his gross vs net....hes getting quite nicely taxed.

And I looked into the professional athlete fee....

Seems Pittsburgh takes an extra 3% from anyone...athlete or entertainer...who performs in any building maintained by the city. Its easy to do it to athletes because they are there year round. Musicians are apparently hell to make pay it because they are in and out and may not be back for years.

[warriorfan]

:wtf:

Double check the decimal...

:lebronamazed:

[305Baller]

Pittsburgh professional athlete fee? Ha.

[Spurs m8]

Its the details that interest me.

He paid a 9800 dollar professional athlete fee....

Id love to know where exactly that goes.

Nah you raise a good point there.

[nashwade]

any place that you can help your organisation or boss earn millions will earn you that kind of paycheck


ECONOMICS

[bison]

It

[konex]

Somehow I'm less pissed off by the high figures than all the taxes from other places not in PA. Pro athletes are ripped off lol

[305Baller]

wheres the carbon footprint tax? thats what we need

[kennethgriffen]

lol@ 2.2 million turning into 400 grand after taxes and fees


no wonder athletes end up broke.. they probly buy a 10 million dollar home and later realize thats their entire 50 million dollar contract

[Shaquille O'Neal]

lol@ 2.2 million turning into 400 grand after taxes and fees


no wonder athletes end up broke.. they probly buy a 10 million dollar home and later realize thats their entire 50 million dollar contract



Looks like about 820k turning into 400 grand to me - the 2.2 mil is YTD.

[bison]

Looks like about 820k turning into 400 grand to me - the 2.2 mil is YTD.

Yeah but you have to remember that Kenny

[305Baller]

How many Insidehoopers seeing this tax money?

ha

[nayte]

While I don't have an sympathy that is crazy. Losing half your pay

[iamgine]

In reality top NBA Athletes are 'only' paid $12-$16 Millions.

[baudkarma]

This is a single pay period of two weeks. May 1st to 15th 2015. NBA players get paid the same way unless they request it differently. Every two weeks. They pay state taxes in every state the NBA has a team just like this guy did for baseball.

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Now go to bed so you can get up and go to work for peanuts. Should have been shooting in the gym in high school instead of chasing hoes or playing halo.

Not totally accurate. Pro athletes pay taxes ("Jock Tax") in a state or city only when their team plays a game there. The Pirates had played road games in St. Louis and Chicago in the days prior to this payday, hence the taxes for those cities and the states they're in.

The Jock Tax actually started with the NBA, when California imposed a tax on Bulls players playing against the Lakers in the Finals. Illinois soon responded with it's own version of the tax, and pretty soon other cities and states had followed suit. The Jock Tax is similar to other taxes, like the high taxes levied on hotel rooms and rental cars... a handy way for the government to gather income without riling up the local voters.

[Big164]

More pissed at what Uncle Sam swiped tbh.

[Kblaze8855]

I know its when they play there. Its why their tax returns are so complicated. And now it includes canada too and other international stops.



It’s nothing compared to the owners, who employ them and do 1/100th of the labor athletes do to generate their profits. If you wanna get angry at inequity, go after wealth, not income.

Im not angry at any of it. But I know some are.

To me....I wouldnt try to compare the money of the guy who created Amazon to a guy who unfolds cardboard boxes for shipping in the first place.

I dont know why people think the poor should have a lot of money. If they dont earn it where is it supposed to come from other than people who arent poor? Just gonna shift money from a manager who works 78 hour weeks to a guy who cant get a job that drug tests because he sells/smokes weed all day? The poor should have all the assistance they need to do better...but you cant just hand the money out from the paychecks of people who earned it and call it fair. Most taxpayers are not the tycoons. Its people who work on assembly lines and at post offices and manage gas stations with 12-15 hour shifts because some 19 year old called out.

Id support better financial education and government funded trade schools for adults....but I dont know how much you can do for a lot of the poor who simply lack the motivation or tools to make a lot of money.

The truly rich people....they are gonna outpace the poor no matter what you do because their value is tied to things they own and not their income.

The guy who owns the Nuggets also owns the LA Rams...and Arsenal soccer...and an NHL team...hes the 9th largest land owner in the united states...and his wife is Ann Walton. As in...Walmart Walton. Her dad founded Walmart. He has NFL, NBA, Soccer, land, and Walmart money. What kind of idiot expects some guy scrubbing shit off toilet seats to have money like that?

If you doubled the pay of all his employees(and they have at Walmart in the last 20 years...and its about to go to 15 an hour when Target does it) he would still be a godlike figure compared to them. He had made his money in real estate before he even met his wife....and Walmart wasnt walmart yet in the early 70s anyway. But the way things went?

How do you prevent him becoming waaaaaaaaaaaaay richer than everyone? He owns more land than makes up the state of rhode island...his wife is a walmart heir. How do you prevent his wealth from going up when Walmarts value increases and so does the value of land? And they go hand in hand because a LOT of his land is strip malls sharing a lot with existing walmarts. Hes the guy who owns all those little retail spaces full of tmobile shops and chinese food spots in the strip malls on the side of walmarts.

When Walmart grows he grows. Hes got inside connects now. He knows where a new walmart will be built and he buys the land near it for cheap to put his retail spaces after Walmart builds a store to bring traffic right next door. You couldnt even tax it away because its mostly net worth not income. Hes not gonna sell all his land or cash out the family walmart stock.

So how do you keep his worth from going up?

You cant.

But people get mad as if there is something someone is supposed to do to prevent it.

The same people mad are shopping at walmart because the Great Value wings are 5.98 and tysons are 8.98.

The public gives these people the money then gets mad they have it.

[baudkarma]

Also keep in mind that all we're seeing is his tax withholding. He could be getting some substantial refund checks once his accountant gets done adding up all his deductions.