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Quick hits; Editorial; Beaver County Times; March 2, 2011.
“CLUELESS, PART 2” represents the second time in about a month a local newspaper attempted to equate the NFL’s revenue sharing with socialism in a bid to show leftist policies really do work. The first was “Gene Collier: Socialism serves fans and billionaires well” in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The intent of the columns is to convince us what’s appropriate for a business – in this case the NFL – is appropriate for government. The obvious problem with this proposition is businesses are not the same as government.
Though each NFL team has an owner/owner group, for obvious reasons the NFL mostly operates like a single company with 32 divisions or profit centers, not as 32 independent competing companies. Other than on the field, NFL teams don’t compete with each other.
Further, if a team owner doesn’t like the business rules of the NFL, he can sell his team and get out. Unless you consider moving to another country a viable option for most of the population, citizens don’t have the option to opt out of their government.
Finally, I found this section of the editorial properly titled.
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