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Degraded quality of Olympic bronze medal after a week (Nyjah Huston’s (USA Skateboarder)) (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure they make the athletes pay for the medals too. What a ripoff.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The US Olympians used to have to pay tax on their earnings from winnings until 2016 when Obama changed that by preventing the IRS from collecting taxes on those awards.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

thanks obama

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe unpopular opinion, but they should still. Why should it be tax exempt? At the end of the day, it's not enough money to worry about so it doesn't really matter. They aren't doing charity or anything though, just work that happens to be a sport and at a very high level. If we tax the rich just a tiny bit more it brings in far more tax money though, so I'd focus on that instead.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What!?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I SAID, IM PRETTY SURE THEY MAKE THE ATHETES PAY FOR THE MEDALS TOO! WHAT A RIPOFF!

But after searching for this info on the internet, I'm finding that I could be just entirely wrong about this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Unless they make the sponsors pay and also like a lump sum of money from the sponsors to the athletes I don't see that as a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

The athleyes does not pay their medals they win, wtf??