Outside the Box

Internal Revenue Service

If you want to blame someone for the high price of going to see a game, blame the tax code. Any system that allows corporations or private individuals to deduct the expense of season tickets, luxury boxes, parking, concessions, etc. is causing the high salaries we are seeing today. Taxpayers are essentially subsidizing the salaries of major league players and owners and certain fans. It's a dirty little secret and the main problem, in my mind, with baseball today.

Now Dubya is never going to change this in a million years, after all commissioner of baseball is the only job he has really, really dreamed about, but if you could get some senator from a small market area to push for this something could happen.

I'm not a tax attorney, so please set me straight if I'm wrong, but this is something that gets zero mention in the press.