Why did the US not treat Joe Louis with more respect he gave his country everything..

Rule 1 - don't screw with the tax man

 

You know that PP. Don't matter who you are at the end of the day. If you do something illegal you run the risk of getting shat on in a big way. Not everyone famous gets punished the way they should, but they themselves have taken that risk.

 

Since when was Max Schmeling a nazi?

 

Max Schmelling was not a Nazi

 

Because nobody is above the tax code.

If you owe, you owe. And if you don't pay, they come for you.

Exceptions are made, but Joe Louis owed a disgustingly large amount. They weren't going to excuse that. Not for an athlete.

I blame his managers more than Uncle Sam.

 

In the tax system? I don't think they are unless someones pocket's are being lined

Inherently the system can be very difficult to keep your money once you get it as a poor uneducated man because you need to know the rules. Poor people who get money without understanding finances go broke quickly. A fool and his money are easily separated.

 

A man should have two best friends: An attorney and an accountant.

Once you start owing, and you aren't paying, that interest...It's astonishing how fast you can be millions of dollars in hoc to the IRS. And it's hard to discharge the US of A in bankrupcy.

I've seen so many fighters go through what you are describing. When you get paid 100k for a fight, you dont just get to keep it. Many of them do, over and over, and five years later, all of a sudden, tax man comes and says, you owe me damn near a million dollars.

And that is why we have some former superstars fighting until they are 50.

 

Max Schmeling had a Jewish manager which the Reich asked him to let go. He would not. They asked him to become a party member, which he would not, so he ended up a paratrooper on the Eastern Front. After the war, it became known that he did Jewish brothers in his hotel, risking his own life, during Kristalnacht.

Do your research.

 

I agree , but as he defended his title twice during war time for training expenses only, his two purses going to the Army ,and the Navy funds . Plus he gave God knows how many exhibitions, and war bond selling tours I think they might have cut him a bit of slack .

 

Got behind in taxes. Legendary boxers are ****ing awesome at boxing, but suck at money manaqgement. Julio Caeser Chavez was getting hounded by his countries "irs".

 

Still people want to give more and more power to the govenment.

 

Yes, he did all that, but he didn't exactly lead a rebellion against facism, or leave his country in protest (like some other famous Germans of the time) nor did object to being used as a "sports" ambassador for the thir reich. So no not a Nazi or a racist, but a definite opportunist.

 

Right... I think people never see anything wrong with the power of government until it affects them directly. Sad really.