{"id":10305,"date":"2014-01-28T17:26:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T17:26:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-01-28T17:26:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T17:26:26","slug":"the_jock_tax_and_other_super_bowl_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/01\/28\/the_jock_tax_and_other_super_bowl_news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jock Tax &#8212; and Other Super Bowl News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/55527\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, folks, this is the way it was meant to be.  Now we\u2019re talking.  You remember the famous middle linebacker for both the Denver Broncos and Oakland Raiders, Bill Romanowski?  Well, Bill Romanowski, in talking about the Super Bowl, said (paraphrasing), &#8220;I think Seattle has to lay someone out if they\u2019re gonna win this game.  They\u2019re gonna have to put somebody on a stretcher in order to win.&#8221;  Now, that\u2019s more like it, folks.  That is more like it. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_86533\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/NFLRoman.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>They hate Romanowski anyway.  They think he took all kinds of PEDs and, you know, he spit on players.  Did you know that?  He actually spit on his opponents.  He didn\u2019t just tell a reporterette what he thought about.  He spit on \u2019em, on Monday Night Football.  Oh, yeah.  He was a football player.  He took no prisoners.  And he turned into a madman during game time.  And he\u2019s out there, he said, &#8220;I think Seattle has to lay somebody out in this game.  I think they need to bring that cart out or that stretcher.  When those kind of bad things happen to your team and you\u00c2\u2019re wheeling a guy on a cart, there\u00c2\u2019s a certain energy that a team takes on and it hits you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what he\u2019s saying is, when a team puts somebody on a stretcher, that fires up the team, and the team seeing a teammate on the stretcher being carted off suffers a similar depression, particularly if it\u2019s a star player.  So in the midst of all of this liberal touchy-feely attempt to take the violence and the masculinity out of the game, here comes old Bill Romanowski talking the way they still talk in the locker room today.  Not in public.  You will never hear a player, active player talk this way, and you would never hear an active player admit that this kind of conversation goes on in the locker room.  But it does. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah.  The only chance Seattle has is to put somebody on a stretcher, preferably Peyton Manning.  He didn\u2019t say that, but, I mean, you take out the quarterback.  Nothing\u2019s changed in the game.  That\u2019s what you do.  I\u2019ll catch heat now.  I\u2019m just adding a name here to what Romanowski &#8212; he didn\u2019t name anybody and he probably didn\u2019t intend to name anybody, but you people that have played the game, you know exactly what I\u2019m talking about.  You try to take the quarterback out of the game. Not illegally. It\u2019s just always been part of the structure of the game. <\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at some of the headlines.  I\u2019m not sure this is right, by the way.  Forbes has a story, and the Washington Post has a story.  They both say that Peyton Manning will owe New Jersey $57,000 in taxes after the Super Bowl.  Now, what did I do with the Forbes story?  Well, here\u2019s the Washington Post version.  &#8220;Seahawks, Broncos Will Pay New Jersey Taxes.&#8221;  And what this is, it\u2019s called the jock tax, and believe me, it\u2019s real. All visiting teams &#8212; major League Baseball, NBA, football &#8212; teams that are in town on the road playing, they pay the taxes of the state and perhaps even the city where they\u2019re playing. <\/p>\n<p>So if the Dodgers are in New York for three games, they pay taxes to New York for those three days, and then they are exempted from those three days being taxed in California where they live.  That\u2019s not really new. It\u2019s been standard operating tax procedure for a long time.  Now, the way this works is the players will owe New Jersey part of their salaries because the game is being played in New Jersey and because they\u2019re here for a full week. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New Jersey is one of a handful of states that levies a so-called &#8216;jock tax\u2019 &#8212; a tax on any out-of-state athlete who plays a game in the Garden State. The tax hits every member of a professional sports team\u2019s roster, regardless of whether they actually take the field, as well as the broadcasters who call the games.&#8221; It affects the equipment managers; it affects everybody in the traveling party. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Players will be taxed at a rate of 8.97% of the salaries they earn for each day in the state. Bonuses for winning championships are subject to taxes too.&#8221; Now, what they\u2019ve calculated here is that Peyton Manning and every other member of the Broncos&#8230; Well, let\u2019s stick with Manning because they calculated his income.  &#8220;Peyton Manning, who stands to earn $15 million next year and will make either $92,000 or $46,000 whether the Broncos win or lose, will owe New Jersey somewhere around $57,000 next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, the only amount&#8230; I may be wrong about this, but the players\u2019 salaried paydays end with the end of the regular season, and the salaried paydays begin the first week of the regular season.  These players, during the playoffs, are not making any salary.  They\u2019ve been paid.  They are paid 16 times during the year &#8212; well, 17 times.  They\u2019re paid 17 times during the year, once per week of the regular season. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unknown whether a team is gonna make the playoffs so you can\u2019t calculate and prorate a salary for any longer than 17 weeks, so every team that makes the playoffs, the players are playing only for whatever they earn by qualifying for the playoffs.  And the Super Bowl numbers by themselves &#8212; this does not include any playoff games prior &#8212; you get $46,000 if you lose the Super Bowl and $92,000 if you win the Super Bowl. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_86549\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Superbowl2014.jpg\"\/><BR\/>Now, what this article is saying is, you got Peyton Manning who stands to earn $15 million this year, calendar 2014, which is when he will earn either 92,000, 46,000 from New Jersey.  They\u2019re calculating that Peyton, because of his salary, will owe New Jersey somewhere around $57,000.  I\u2019m not sure that that\u2019s right.  He may only owe 8.97% of what he earns playing in the Super Bowl, and then if the Broncos return to play the Jets or Giants regular season schedule this year, this coming season. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>Now, I\u2019m not totally sure about this, but I don\u2019t know how New Jersey gets a cut of everything Peyton earns in 2014 simply because he was here for a week.  What New Jersey will get is a week\u2019s worth of earnings that add up to $92,000 if they win.  Regardless, it\u2019s still obscene.  The point is, he doesn\u2019t even live here.  These players don\u2019t even live here.  They\u2019re going to be paying state taxes in New Jersey. <\/p>\n<p>And if this story is right (and it could well be), he\u2019s gonna owe $57,000 even if he\u2019s on the losing team and earns $46,000, if the story is accurate.  This is why I don\u2019t go to New York anymore.  I\u2019m subject to the jock tax.  I\u2019m not a jock, but anybody who is not a resident of New York but has lived there before, as I have, obviously has a record of living in New York, and New York tends to not believe you when you move, particularly when you move to a no-income tax state.<\/p>\n<p>They follow you, and I get audited every year since 1997. Every year.  You would not believe the process.  It takes three years to prove a negative.  I have to prove I haven\u2019t been there. I was not there, and I had to prove every day. It\u2019s ridiculous.  It\u2019s harassment.  But once you\u2019ve lived there, they\u2019ve got a record of you living there, and any time they claim you come back, even if you\u2019re just there to work a day, they find you and they audit you and they want your money for it. <\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s just how obscene and ridiculous this has gotten.  I talk to people that leave New York. They\u2019re finally fed up and they\u2019re moving to Florida. &#8220;Yeah, yeah, all I gotta do is be in Florida for like 183 days and I don\u2019t have to pay New York taxes.&#8221;  That is not right.  Whoever\u2019s telling you that, that you only have to be a Florida resident by living there a little over six months? Wrongo, pal.  I explain the jock tax to \u2019em. Because if they find you, you\u2019re gonna pay tax on every day you\u2019re in New York if you\u2019re working. <\/p>\n<p>If you go up on a Saturday and Sunday, you\u2019re still gonna have to prove to them you didn\u2019t do any work, even if all you did was go play golf.  A lot of people don\u2019t understand how this works, but they\u2019re beginning to because they\u2019re beginning to be ensnared by it. So I think it\u2019s fascinating the story even ran.  In the midst of the Super Bowl and maybe winning the highest championship in the world of professional football, the story is on how much they\u2019re gonna owe tax-wise. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n<p>Except, of course, class envy. Maybe there are people out there who think they deserve it and should pay more.  Super Bowl ticket demand is down.  It\u2019s way down.  Did you hear about this?  Yeah, what happens is the league gives tickets, sells tickets to certain partners &#8212; the teams in the NFL and so forth &#8212; and after that there develops the secondary and tertiary market.  Those marketers generally end up selling tickets for sometimes up to three times face value. <\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re having trouble maintaining face value, and they\u2019re certainly not getting anywhere near double face value.  So the analysts are trying to figure out why, and they\u2019ve got two conclusions. (interruption) Well, that\u2019s one of them.  &#8220;It\u2019s gonna be cold.&#8221;  It\u2019s gonna be cold &#8212; and it\u2019s not just cold. It\u2019s five hours of cold.  You\u2019re outside five hours, and these people that are attending this game are not the kind of people that attend regular season games outside. <\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re in suites. <\/p>\n<p>These people are being forced to sit outside when they normally don\u2019t do that. <\/p>\n<p>Five hours of cold, that\u2019s one of the factors. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=3429\"><img id=\"eZObject_86537\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/NFLShermanNYDN.jpg\"\/><\/a>The other thing being said is that the teams aren\u2019t sexy.  The secondary market scalpers &#8212; uh, ticket sellers &#8212; say there\u2019s really not a whole lot of interest in Seattle and Denver.  I mean, let\u2019s be honest about it.  That\u2019s what they\u2019re saying. (interruption) Not only the Mannings, Richard Sherman. Richard Sherman had his latest column at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mmqb.si.com\/2014\/01\/28\/richard-sherman-seattle-seahawks-super-bowl-xlviii\/\">MondayMorningQuarterback.com<\/a>, and Richard Sherman says he\u2019s through attacking people. <\/p>\n<p>Somebody sent him a tweet that said, &#8220;You never make yourself bigger by attacking them and making them smaller.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He said, that\u2019s right; he\u2019s through attacking people &#8212; and now the media is through with him.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  I\u2019m gonna tell you something, folks.  I don\u2019t care how unsexy the Super Bowl teams are; I will make you the following bet:  I will bet you that the Super Bowl ratings trounce the ratings for the State of the Coup speech tonight.  Anybody have any doubt that that will happen?  So they can sit out there and they can say, &#8220;Well, we can\u2019t maintain our ticket prices.  The teams aren\u2019t sexy, and it\u2019s cold out there.&#8221;  Nevertheless, the State of the Coup ratings tonight will be buried by the Super Bowl ratings. <\/p>\n<p>And what does that mean?<\/p>\n<p>It means that people would rather watch war &#8212; sanctioned brutality and maiming, injurious war &#8212; than watch a man of peace and bipartisanship.  Now, what must that say to the left about our country, that the people of this country would rather watch war and probably agree with Romanowski that the only way the Seahawks wins if somebody goes out on a stretcher? They would rather watch a man of peace and bipartisan speak on class warfare, inequality &#8212; oh, and raising the minimum wage. It\u2019s like the fifth time in the State of the Union speeches since Bill Clinton, by the way. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  New Providence, New Jersey.  Bob, hi.  Great to have you on the EIB Network, sir.  Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Hi, Rush.  Very glad to talk with you.  This is the socialist utopia of New Jersey, is another way to look at it.  We\u2019re blessed with the highest taxes in every category: income, sales, real estate, debt, you name it, we pay it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Yeah, and it\u2019s not helping them with traffic jams, is it?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  (laughing)  But anyway, the main thing is, I think when you\u2019re talking about the taxes you\u2019re leaving a couple things out with the football players, like Peyton Manning and so on and so on.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Wait a minute, now.  Be very careful telling me that I\u2019ve left things out.  What did I leave out?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  You left out the fact that whatever tax he pays in New Jersey, he gets a credit on his Colorado tax return, not for the full amount of the New Jersey tax, but a prorated share based on the rate in Colorado, which is 4.63 and New Jersey, which is 7.97.  So in Colorado, he will get something like 52% of whatever he pays to New Jersey as a credit against his Colorado return.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Well, now, I did &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  But let me finish.  If you look at any Washington state player, there\u2019s no income tax in Washington state, so in Washington state, if they win, whatever they pay in New Jersey, they pay, period, they get no credit in the state of Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Right. Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Okay?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  But I did mention that the jock tax, the players, there is an accounting made in their home state for the state paid and the state they\u2019re working.  I didn\u2019t get into the detail of the percentages that you did, but I did &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Okay, I missed that.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Yeah. I did mention it.  But the rate I\u2019ve got here &#8212; you said 7.9 in New Jersey.  The rate I\u2019ve got is 8.9.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  I\u2019m sorry.  It\u2019s 8.97.  I\u2019m sorry, 8.97 in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Okay, well, Bob, hang on just a second.  I\u2019ve gotta take a break here and a couple more things I want to ask you about.  I don\u2019t think you\u2019re finished.  I sense that.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Back now to Bob in New Providence, New Jersey.  Were you through making your point?  We ran out of time there.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Well, yeah, I more or less was, but I think I would just make a couple of other wrap-up points, and that is that, number one, I do have some sympathy for the players and the tax that they have to pay, but they use tax advisors. They use CPAs. They really have a lot of help in trying to at least maintain a logical level of taxes that they\u2019re paying.  The bigger issue, really, is the residents in the state of New Jersey, where we\u2019re on our own.  Now, we\u2019ve had Governor Christie as governor for four years, he\u2019s into his fifth year, our taxes have gone up.  Now, he says they haven\u2019t gone up but they\u2019ve gone up.  My property tax has gone up 13% since he\u2019s been governor.  That\u2019s on a gross basis, but it really went up by about 25% when you take out that we\u2019re not getting property tax rebates anymore.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Let me ask you a question about Peyton. Let\u2019s go back to Manning &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Sure.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  &#8212; because he\u2019s the example used in the story.  If they win the Super Bowl, Manning will make 92 grand.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Yes.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Now, did you hear me say that their paydays end the last week of the regular season?  Once the playoffs start they\u2019re not making any money.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  That\u2019s correct.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_86554\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaTaxEVERYONECongress.jpg\"\/><BR\/>RUSH:  They only earn whatever they win per playoff game and get by losing one.  I think in the wild card round if you lose you get nothing. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Anyway, the Super Bowl game by itself is 92 grand. I don\u2019t think that counts the previous rounds where they\u2019ve won, so it\u2019s $92,000.  Now, the way this has been calculated, for Peyton Manning to owe $57,000, obviously whoever calculated this is including earnings in New Jersey this year beyond the Super Bowl. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Not necessarily.  Now, again, the answer is it all depends.  If he retires immediately after the Super Bowl game, then he only worked in New Jersey for 33 days, which would be the month of January and two days in February.  And he made himself a whole lot of money &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Wait, wait, wait, wait.  He didn\u2019t get to New Jersey until Sunday night.  He hasn\u2019t been &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  I think they\u2019re gonna count the entire month of January.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  No, they don\u2019t do that.  No, no.  In fact, I\u2019ll tell you, let me use me.  It\u2019s a per diem.  I have to tell the state of New York the number of days that I was working in the state earning income, and it\u2019s just those days that I am required to pay taxes on.  Now, I haven\u2019t been to New York and work in four years and they audit me every year anyway. So he doesn\u2019t have to pay for January.  That would be outrageous.  My question to you was gonna be, do you think that these jock taxes are even legit?  Peyton Manning doesn\u2019t live in New Jersey.  Why should he have to pay anything to New Jersey? He had no choice, he has to go there.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Is it legit?  No, I don\u2019t believe it is.  But at the same time there are 41 states that have an income tax on out of state residents and in-state residents.  There are seven states with no income tax, Washington state being one of them, and there are two states that just tax interest and dividends.  That would be New Hampshire and Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  But the way the taxes are applied, it\u2019s not just as simple as saying only the days you worked in the state.  The way New York and New Jersey do it and I believe most other states with an income tax do the same thing, they take the number of days that you worked in the state divided by the number of days you worked for the entire year anyplace, and the number of days for that denominator is gonna be 365 minus weekends off, holidays &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  It\u2019s 250 days, basically.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  &#8212; and all that stuff.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  It\u2019s 250 days they calculate, yeah.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_86556\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/NFLYellowFlag.jpg\"\/><BR\/>CALLER:  You and I might work 250 days, but somebody who\u2019s a football player might only work 80 days, a hundred days a year when you take training camps, games, and so on.  So his denominator is smaller, it makes the numerator have a more powerful impact in how that allocation is gonna be to a given state.  I\u2019m not gonna tell you that I know exactly how the jock tax works precisely, but I\u2019m talking about the New York and New Jersey, it\u2019s very common for people to live in New Jersey, work in New York.  And we go through this, it\u2019s a back and forth, back and forth &#8212;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  That\u2019s a whole different nut.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  &#8212; keeping diaries and records and defending yourself.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Yeah, yeah.  That\u2019s a whole different thing.  But that doesn\u2019t describe Peyton Manning.  It doesn\u2019t describe any of the other jocks.  In fact, I think he maintains his residence still in Indianapolis, to be honest with you.  But I don\u2019t know that for sure.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  But if he does, then Indiana is going to be the base state, and whatever their max tax rate is, he will be taxed on &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  He\u2019s gonna be paying taxes in Colorado, he\u2019s gonna paying taxes in Indianapolis and now New Jersey, and every other state that he\u2019s gone to.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  Every other state.  But every dollar of tax he pays in any state where he\u2019s not a resident, all those dollars &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Right, he gets a credit, but you just explained, he gets shafted on the credit.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:  He gets shafted on the credit \u2019cause New Jersey at 8.97 and Colorado, if he lived in Colorado which is 4.63, that means that every dollar &#8212; if he pays $10,000 to New Jersey, he only gets a credit for $5,200 in his home state.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Right.  Well, here\u2019s the money quote from the Forbes piece that got all this started.  &#8220;If Manning is able to play next season, his New Jersey income tax would be $46,989 on $92,000 for winning the Super Bowl, or 51.08%. If they lose and he is able to play in 2014, he will pay New Jersey $46,844 on his $46,000.&#8221;  If the Broncos lose, Peyton Manning will owe the state of New Jersey more money in tax than he will earn from the game, if Denver loses.  That &#8220;amounts to a 101.83% tax on his actual Super Bowl earnings in the state &#8212; and this does not even consider federal taxes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So the Forbes calculation was specifically based on Manning not retiring.  Now, if you want to add even more to this, in the just-concluded season, which is the tax year 2013 for which everybody has to file by April 15th of this year, both the Seahawks and the Broncos played the Giants in New Jersey.  So he\u2019s already been to New Jersey once last year and has already or will have to pay taxes in New Jersey for that trip.  And that tax rate will be based on his $15 million annual salary. <\/p>\n<p>Now, he was in New Jersey for two days.  Actually, 36 hours.  The visiting team will arrive at four o\u2019clock in the afternoon on Saturday, they\u2019ll play the game on Sunday, then hightail it back home. So that\u2019s the length of time he\u2019s in the state.  It\u2019s considered a full working day, I\u2019m sure.  So whatever prorated per game, New Jersey is gonna get their take of it for that day. Seahawks, same thing.  But as you say, the Seattle players owe the state of Washington nothing because there\u2019s no state income tax there.  Now, I\u2019ve always thought this was weird when I was first exposed to it and first told what it was gonna cost me per day to go back to New York to work after I left.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll tell you, folks, since I learned what I know about income taxes, they really do influence the way I live.  And I can\u2019t tell you how that frustrates friends of mine in California.  I can\u2019t tell you.  They tell me, &#8220;You know, you are tax phobic.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>And I said, &#8220;I\u2019m not tax phobic.  I\u2019m just tax smart.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, why don\u2019t you get a place out here?  I mean, you love coming out here and we love having you out here. Why don\u2019t you get a place out there for like five months or four months a year?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Cause I don\u2019t want the state of California to find out I\u2019m there, \u2019cause that\u2019s just gonna be another agency auditing me left and right, and I don\u2019t want to give them the money.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>My lifestyle, where I determine that I will go, is indeed affected by taxes. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I\u2019m sure some of you people are saying (and I wouldn\u2019t blame you if you are), &#8220;Well, wait a minute. You can afford it.&#8221;  Not the point.  To me, it\u2019s principle.  I disagree with it, and if I don\u2019t have to pay it, I\u2019m not going to sit here when I weigh the two things: How much enjoyment, fun, whatever do I get going to New York and working for a couple days, versus not going there and not having to pay taxes, given what that stupid previous governor has said.<\/p>\n<p>Why would I want to spend any time in New York when the governor there has basically applauded my leaving, and the current governor has made it clear that he doesn\u2019t want any conservatives in his state?  Why should I go make myself a target of these people?  I already am one.  So I am &#8211;I don\u2019t know &#8212; probably more extreme about this than most other people.  Most people probably don\u2019t care about it.<\/p>\n<p>They just have the accountant figure it out, send the money, and the hell with it and they don\u2019t even think about it.  But I do, because it\u2019s a matter of principle to me.  So I pay attention to this kind of stuff, and it just irritates me that these football players are gonna owe the state of New Jersey money, whether they win or lose.  I\u2019m sure some of you disagree. &#8220;Well, Rush, they\u2019re in the state when they\u2019re earning it, and the state should get their take.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, but the state isn\u2019t paying them, and they have no choice in this case but to go there.  It\u2019s a job requirement and this kind of thing. &#8220;But, Rush, they got a credit for it.&#8221; Yeah, but as explained, sometimes the credit does not fully offset it. It ends up costing them money, based on all the different criteria.  Then look at how much you gotta pay the accountants and lawyers to keep you legal on all this.  After you do all that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I love home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Now, folks, this is the way it was meant to be. Now we\u2019re talking. You remember the famous middle linebacker for both the Denver Broncos and Oakland Raiders, Bill Romanowski? 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