{"id":1591380,"date":"2022-08-05T16:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591380"},"modified":"2022-08-05T16:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:34:25","slug":"poor-brittney-griner-wnba-star-is-so-rich-obama-wanted-to-raise-her-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poor-brittney-griner-wnba-star-is-so-rich-obama-wanted-to-raise-her-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Poor\u2019 Brittney Griner: WNBA Star Is So Rich Obama Wanted To Raise Her Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoor-brittney-griner-wnba-star-is-so-rich-obama-wanted-to-raise-her-taxes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591380&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8220;I do think at a certain point you&#8217;ve made enough money&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 August 5, 2022 4:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A Russian court on Thursday sentenced Brittney Griner, the left-wing activist and WNBA &#8220;star,&#8221; to nine years in prison for attempting to smuggle cannabis oil into the authoritarian country. American journalists pounced on the news in an effort to make a political point about sexism and income inequality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s just get real,&#8221; said CNN host Dana Bash, who went on to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreeBeacon\/status\/1555220511680077824\">suggest<\/a> that Griner was found guilty &#8220;because she is a 6-foot-9, black, lesbian American.&#8221; Earlier in the broadcast, Bash <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrentScher\/status\/1555212648425324544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complained<\/a> that Griner was arrested and convicted for illegally possessing drugs in Russia because of the gender pay gap in America.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason Brittney Griner and other women are in Russia playing basketball is because they don&#8217;t get paid anywhere near what the men get paid in the U.S.,&#8221; the journalist said. (Fact Check: True. WNBA players make less compared with NBA players in part because the men&#8217;s league <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/sports\/2021\/4\/7\/22367915\/pay-disparity-between-nba-wnba-is-a-numbers-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earns<\/a> 132 times more revenue [$7.92 billion] than the women&#8217;s league [$60 million], which operates at a loss and is subsidized by the NBA. Griner is not good enough to play in the NBA.)<\/p>\n<p>Griner isn&#8217;t poor. She is one of the highest-paid players in the WNBA, taking home $228,000 a year (not including bonuses). She has a $1 million endorsement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wnba-star-brittney-griner-talks-about-becoming-first-openly-gay-athlete-endorsed-by-nike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deal<\/a> with Nike. She doesn&#8217;t really need the extra cash (about\u00a0$1 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/sports\/brittney-griner-sentencing-how-the-wnba-stars-salary-compares-to-her-russian-earnings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per season<\/a>) she earns by playing in Russia. As former president Barack Obama once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OgP2LcSwjQk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, &#8220;I do think at a certain point you&#8217;ve made enough money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of context, Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/08\/11\/pf\/tax_increase_rich\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defined<\/a> &#8220;wealthy&#8221; as any individual earning more than $200,000. So even if Griner&#8217;s WNBA salary was her sole source of income, the former president would argue that she had a moral obligation to pay more in taxes to help finance Obamacare and other federal programs.<\/p>\n<p>As Obama so eloquently argued during his presidency, wanting to be even wealthier than his definition of &#8220;wealthy&#8221; is just plain greedy. Furthermore, most Americans would agree that seeking employment in Vladimir Putin&#8217;s Russia\u00a0is morally indefensible. No one <em>needs<\/em> to do it.\u00a0There is no amount of money that could justify the unconscionable act of subsidizing and legitimizing an autocratic regime.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics &#8220;I do think at a certain point you&#8217;ve made enough money&#8221;  Andrew Stiles \u2022 August 5, 2022 4:30 pm A Russian court on Thursday sentenced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}