Posts Tagged ‘tax-free medals’

Tax-Free Olympic Boodle is Gold Medal Stupidity

President Obama and conservative GOP senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) agree: Olympic medals and the cash awards that go with them should be tax-exempt. This is the dumbest idea of the summer—and in our overheated campaign season, that’s saying something. The idea seems to have originated with anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist. Rubio instantly turned Norquist’s press [...]