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A Wholesale Attack On The Salary Structure
That's how union chief Donald Fehr termed the owners' main objective in the labor talk in a memo to the players. Fehr claimed that the owners' luxury tax threshold would affect seven teams if imposed in 2001 to the tune of $282 million in tax and that there are five other teams within $10 million of the threshold.
"Simply put, the clubs' proposed tax is designed to and would apply enormous pressure to reduce payrolls," Fehr said. "Its purpose is to lower salaries."
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