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Dodgers Owners' Income: $108 Million. Taxes Paid: $0

By  Zach Behrens
Published Feb 23, 2010 11:00 PM
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Is this why the price of tickets to games are increasing? LA Times sports columnist Michael Hiltzik today rails on Frank and Jamie McCourt--now divorcd--for not paying state and federal taxes on the $108 million they've made over the the last four years. He dives into their lifestyle (such as the eight homes they own) and notes, "the point is not to begrudge the McCourts these luxuries. The point is to question why we as taxpayers should subsidize them."

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