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DirecTV is allowing at least some customers to cancel subscriptions to its Sunday Ticket package of NFL games and obtain refunds, if they cite players' national anthem protests as the reason for discontinuing service, customer service representatives said Tuesday.
Under Sunday Ticket's regular policy, refunds are not to be given once the season is underway. But the representatives said they are making exceptions this season -- which began in September -- because of the controversy over the protests, in which players kneel or link arms during the national anthem.
Spokesmen for DirecTV-parent AT&T Inc. (T) and the National Football League declined to comment.
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DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy
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(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @03:42PM (1 child)
Do the NFL players protesting the US national anthem fund the injustice they see by sending (or allowing to be taken) their money to the Internal Revenue Service? Fully 75%+ of the US federal budget comes from PERSONAL income taxes - NOT corporate or business taxes.
Starve the beast. Don't fund injustice. If criminals come to harm you, treat them as the criminals they are.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Grishnakh on Friday September 29 2017, @05:32PM
If they're mad about the way cops treat black people, not paying your federal taxes isn't going to help that much: the police are mostly funded by local taxes. You'll do better refusing to pay your property taxes (which is pretty hard to do actually, since if you have a mortgage the lender pays it for you). One thing you can do, if you have a local sales tax, is to never buy anything in your locality and buy everything outside the city boundary. Of course, then you're just helping some other locality's shitty cops (assuming they also have a local sales tax). Really, the only thing you can do without resorting to illegality is to pack up and move to someplace where the cops are better, but the problem is that most of the people most affected by bad cops aren't in a financial situation to afford that. Also, it's pretty hard to tell just which areas are going to have cops that treat you better personally; it's not like there's Yelp reviews showing the safest places to live if you're black. I'm wondering now if someone's bothered to compile any data to that effect. That's probably one of the best things minorities could do right now, so at least the ones who can afford it can move to safer communities (safer for them, not safer in general; a place that's safe for lily-white people could be very dangerous for a black person).