John,
NFL owners are political powerbrokers with entire legal and lobbying operations built to protect their fortunes and rig the rules in their favor. They literally fund political campaigns to write the tax laws they want. Now, our new report details how under Trump’s tax law, the average NFL owner is collecting a $286,000 tax cut every year.[1]
These are some of the wealthiest people alive, and they’re feeding at the public trough while fans, who make a median of $85,000 a year, are being fleeced. Trump’s tariffs raised the cost of food and drink at stadiums. Ticket prices are climbing. Even staying home to watch is expensive now as fans are forced to pay over $1,000 a season just to stream games across half a dozen platforms.
This is not a broken system. This is how the system was built to work for the wealthy. These billionaires didn’t just benefit from the Trump tax law, they helped write it. They paid for access to make sure they would get paid back with massive handouts and a tax code designed to keep their wealth growing while everyone else gets squeezed.
We are exposing it. We are organizing to repeal these tax breaks, eliminate the loopholes, and finally make the rich pay their fair share. But we are up against a political machine funded by the same billionaires getting rich off your tax dollars.
If you’re done watching billionaires bleed this country dry, make a donation today to help us shut down their tax scam, expose the NFL owners cashing in while fans get squeezed, and fight for a tax system that works for working people.
NFL owners didn’t earn these tax breaks. They bought them. That’s why their families are walking away with an extra $6.4 million each thanks to gutted estate taxes.[2] That’s money that could be funding schools, lowering prescription drug costs, or expanding healthcare access.
Instead, it’s padding the portfolios of people who already have more than they could spend in ten lifetimes. This is what economic exploitation looks like: billionaire owners wringing every last dollar out of the people who support them, then turning around and cashing government-funded tax breaks.
Our new report confirms what we’ve said for years. The Trump tax law—first enacted in 2017 and permanently extended just this past summer—is a scam. It made the richest people in America richer while shifting the costs onto working people. These aren’t unintended consequences. This is theft, done in broad daylight and protected by law.
We are building a national movement to end this corruption. We’re taking the fight directly to Congress. We’re going after the politicians who protect billionaire tax cheats. And we’re demanding a tax code that serves the public, not the ultra-rich. But we need your help to keep going.
Please make a donation now to help us take down the billionaire tax racket, hold NFL owners accountable, and build a tax system that serves working people, not the ultra-rich.
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Let’s call out this corruption, expose who it’s really serving, and fight like hell to end it.
David Kass
Executive Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund
[1] Flag On The Play: NFL Owners Get Bonanza From GOP Tax Bill While Fans Suffer
[2] After the One Big Beautiful Bill: Estate Tax Updates
