Joe Nocera, Columnist

Go Ahead, Republicans. Tax College Sports.

Did you know that a football booster can deduct the cost of a 50-yard-line seat? Please, Congress, end that abuse.

November 14, 2017 at 6:41 PM UTC

Joe Nocera is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He has written business columns for Esquire, GQ and the New York Times, and is the former editorial director of Fortune. He is the host and writer of the Bloomberg-Wondery podcast "The Shrink Next Door."

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I'm no fan of the tycoon-friendly, deficit-expanding tax bills that House and Senate Republicans have written. But there's one surprising sphere of economic life where the two plans actually offer marked improvements over the status quo: college sports.

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