[tweet]Clarion Ledger — Student athletes inking multimillion dollar name, image and likeness dealsin Mississippi could see their income become tax-exempt as early as next year.

The Mississippi House passed a bill to exclude NIL earnings from the state's income tax, which will be eliminated for all Mississippians in about a decade. The provision, said Rep. Trey Lamar, R-Senatobia, would make Mississippi an attractive destination for top athletes and give college coaches another recruiting perk.

"NIL is taking the country and coming by storm," he said. "Other states are doing it, and I believe it's time that Mississippi starts doing this as well."[/tweet]

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chadr07•18 days

Stuff like this is what starts riots. Good job continuing to screw the regular citizens over

FaCubeItches•17 days

You misspelled "filthy peasants".
- Mississippi House

HagaDaga•18 days

Citizens of states doing this should be grabbing their pitchforks until all state income taxes are removed. For all. Not just the entitled.

cajunmud•18 days

Don't forget the torches. Might as well grab up some tar and feathers while they're at it.

ArmydawgMD•18 days

Why tf should a ball player get rewarded when all the joe blows out there working 9-5s don't?

cajunmud•17 days

Because it's a first step into you joining them.

TouchdownTony•18 days

Everybody wanted this BS. Now it’s time to pay the fiddler. Anybody that didn’t see this train wreck coming was ignorant.

TheWalrus•17 days

Just want to be able to get some money for some autographs…

TomLee•18 days

That bill is some bullshite. Pay the tax man like the rest of us.

grizzlylongcut•18 days

If anyone’s income should be taxed, it’s these entitled motherfrickers. Majority of em can’t even read!

cajunmud•18 days

That's a good first step. Now don't discriminate against everyone else.

mdomingue•17 days

How about just eliminating state income taxes?

SpookeyTiger•17 days

Let’s spoil the spoiled brats even more. :SMH:

conman•16 days

College sports has gone bonkers

Geaux Guy•17 days

Not Federal though.

atltiger6487•17 days

excluding certain groups of people from the laws of the state is almost always a very bad move.

cajunmud•17 days

Unless it's bad law.

Bige11•18 days

We’ve only had income tax for 100 years or so (1913). And when it started less than 1% paid it (hence the rhetoric that it only applies to the 1% is temporary and a Trojan horse as we should all know by now). We don’t need to charge property and income tax.
The truth is income and property tax are just there to complete the illusion that we have a hard money system, and to keep our prosperity and subsequently our freedom at bay.

cajunmud•17 days

Property tax means you never really own it. Income tax means you are a slave...plain and simple.

The 5th Amendment gives us the right to not rat ourselves out...bear witness against ourselves...think Miranda Warning. When you file a tax return you're giving up that right. Think about it.

Now that the gov has finally admitting aliens are amongst us and a new day seems to be dawning...maybe some of these federal judges will finally grow a pair and break with the banksters and the gangsters and stop railroading us into jail and stealing everything we own for what definitely IS a voluntary system.

Our system of taxation is based upon voluntary assessment and payment, not upon distraint.

~ U.S. Supreme Court - Flora v. United States

DonJuanDaMiles•18 days

Dude frick all this paying athletes and not taxing them so people can watch college football. Don’t Mississippi and Arkansas have bigger problems than paying college athletes, the .001% of them that are getting NIL income in those states at that.

Jack Daniel•18 days

Mississippi is already in the process of doing away with income tax for all residents. They are stepping it down each year and completely eliminated by 2030

TouchdownTony•18 days

MS will basically become a bigger wasteland than it is. Dumbest thing the poorest state in America could do.

6R12•18 days

Touchdown Tony you need to score a TD to really enjoy the reduction of taxes. I think it will eventually benefit MS. It may take a few years but it will help if they don't undo those changes.

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LSU4Life2021•17 days

Mississippi is already poor enough....let's just go ahead and pile it on.

rar•16 days

Time to eliminate scholarship money for recipients of NIL ... no tax is truly bullsht.

Rex Feral•17 days

frick that shite.

jp4lsu•17 days

This is Ole Miss and MSU lobbying to get more players in the portal. This is not right. We all have to pay taxes.

St Augustine•17 days

Or none of us do…

FaCubeItches•16 days

Some are more equal than others.
- George Orwell