[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

the problem really isn't with the high paid, the problem is with the owners effectively dumping their other staff and abusing the current situation where the government (ie us) pay for it. The owners really should just say, ok, we are reducing salaries above x per week by 30% or whatever to pay staff. If a player then chooses to leave the club because of that, then that individual will have to carry that for the rest of their career. I would imagine most players would be happy to contribute in the circumstances

3 teams have done this, and one has already reversed it's decisions. Trying to get millionaire footballers to pay for the actions taken by their billionaire bosses is a little confusing.

Branson is doing the exact same thing, and yet no one is pretending that the Virgin employees should be punished.

Soldier is right, it needs to be a tax across the board, not the targeting of a successful group made up of a majority of the working class, BAME, and foreigners.