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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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[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 37 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.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 23 points 3 months ago

thanks obama

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 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.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago

Maybe they should tax it if they sell the award. Else the athletes need to pay to put their prize in their prize closet.