Does it apply to visiting coaches in the SEC? KFC visits a couple of times a year . . .

(06-09-2009 07:49 AM)BARTLETTTIGER Wrote:  

(06-08-2009 09:11 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  

(06-05-2009 12:17 PM)lenetzach Wrote:  Agreed, but underfunded and overcrowded schools can decrease the quality of education available, so students with good support have to work harder (and sometimes have harder time being accepted to universities), and those with worse support systems have less chance of overcoming that. Just throwing money around doesn't solve anything. But a lack of resources can hurt. There is a level at which things can legitimately be called underfunded.

Also, I know for a fact that underfunded schools and infrastructure can be a turn off to business. So there is a balancing act.

How much more do you want to spend? The school budget is already as high as the entire city government budget.


Just exact what is going to be taxed by visiting players. Are they going to require them to buy a privildge license in order to do business in the state or tax a portion of their income they earn while working in the state. . Could make interesting legal challenge since all professional athletes are not required to pay and since an income tax is illegal in Tennessee.

The house and Senate of Tennessee would tax them the income they make while playing in the state of Tennesse. They would tax it by figuring out how much they make per game and taxing a certain percentage of it. I don't know if they would have deductions or exemptions for this plan over and under a certain amount, but that's probably how they would do it.

That would be illegal on so many different levels why would they waste their time even trying to pass such a bill.

(06-09-2009 11:10 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  

(06-09-2009 07:49 AM)BARTLETTTIGER Wrote:  

(06-08-2009 09:11 PM)ncrdbl1 Wrote:  

(06-05-2009 12:17 PM)lenetzach Wrote:  Agreed, but underfunded and overcrowded schools can decrease the quality of education available, so students with good support have to work harder (and sometimes have harder time being accepted to universities), and those with worse support systems have less chance of overcoming that. Just throwing money around doesn't solve anything. But a lack of resources can hurt. There is a level at which things can legitimately be called underfunded.

Also, I know for a fact that underfunded schools and infrastructure can be a turn off to business. So there is a balancing act.

How much more do you want to spend? The school budget is already as high as the entire city government budget.


Just exact what is going to be taxed by visiting players. Are they going to require them to buy a privildge license in order to do business in the state or tax a portion of their income they earn while working in the state. . Could make interesting legal challenge since all professional athletes are not required to pay and since an income tax is illegal in Tennessee.

The house and Senate of Tennessee would tax them the income they make while playing in the state of Tennesse. They would tax it by figuring out how much they make per game and taxing a certain percentage of it. I don't know if they would have deductions or exemptions for this plan over and under a certain amount, but that's probably how they would do it.

That would be illegal on so many different levels why would they waste their time even trying to pass such a bill.

Don't you forget this is the Tennessee Legislature. I look at the Commercial Appeal and look at how many bills did not get pass or tabled to look in the summer committee, it was almost all of them. It will get struck down in some court as unfair becasue it is not applied equally to everyone. That's probably what will happen. Of course the bill is unfair because it is not applied equally.

I think that the City of St. Louis has a city income tax.