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Originally Posted by butterfly
The cap already isn't dependent on government decisions. I'm not sure how you'd calculate the punishments and rewards, given that teams can have vastly different player salary structures (stars and scrubs vs. spread out like the Kraken, floor team or cap team), and individuals can be single or married, have kids or not, have various types of tax deductions that they're either entitled to or not.
It's not like players don't already love going to Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, etc. Now teams like that should get more money to spend at the expense of Seattle, Nashville, or Dallas?
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The clear intent of the cap is that teams have the same amount of dollars to offer players. Tax structures remove that level playing field. Like it or not, income tax rates play a huge part in player decisions, and the other after-tax financial implications just don't.
Teams can still have their varying salary structures. Cities still have their non-financial advantages. The salary cap affectes neither of those things. But the cap should be effectively the same for everyone and it just isn't right now.