{"id":35883,"date":"2005-04-15T09:03:54","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T09:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/04\/15\/news-flash-everybody-has-to-pay-income-tax\/"},"modified":"2005-04-15T09:03:54","modified_gmt":"2005-04-15T09:03:54","slug":"news-flash-everybody-has-to-pay-income-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050415-54\/?p=35883","title":{"rendered":"News flash: Everybody has to pay income tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenjdubner.com\/journalism\/091802.html\"> NFL rookies are required to attend &#8220;How not to mess up your life like those other professional athletes&#8221; training<\/a>. They learn about such things as sexual harassment, AIDS, common-law marriage, and, of course, taxes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> Kendrell Bell, a Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker, tells of his great awakening to the verities of income tax: &#8220;I got a million-dollar signing bonus. But then I got the check, and it was only $624,000. I thought, Oh, well, I&#8217;ll get the other half later. Then I found out that&#8217;s all there was. I thought, They can&#8217;t do this to me. Then I got on the Internet and I found out they can.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Shocking!  Football players have to pay income tax!  Where will the injustice end?<\/p>\n<p> [Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/04\/15\/113812.aspx\"> Yes, this is an inadvertent repeat<\/a>. The link is better, though, not requiring a New York Times subscription.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL rookies are required to attend &#8220;How not to mess up your life like those other professional athletes&#8221; training. They learn about such things as sexual harassment, AIDS, common-law marriage, and, of course, taxes. Kendrell Bell, a Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker, tells of his great awakening to the verities of income tax: &#8220;I got a million-dollar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[110,103],"class_list":["post-35883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-news-flash","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>NFL rookies are required to attend &#8220;How not to mess up your life like those other professional athletes&#8221; training. They learn about such things as sexual harassment, AIDS, common-law marriage, and, of course, taxes. Kendrell Bell, a Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker, tells of his great awakening to the verities of income tax: &#8220;I got a million-dollar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}