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The richest of the rich in our country are not the hardworking business persons anymore, but rather our professional athletes. The salaries of these athletes have grown considerably over the last 20 years who now make obscene amounts for playing a sport. Professional sports athletes should not be paid as much as they now earn. Right now, the President of the United States makes around $200,000 a year. In 1997, in Major League Baseball, the average salary was $1.4 per year, though that is only the average. Barry Bonds, one of the highest paid in the league, earned $11.5 in a two year contract made in 1998. Once again, the President of the United States makes $200,000 a year….not $5.75 million. Professional athletes create an entire market of supply and demand in the sports obsessed world of some Americans. Teachers, fire fighters and policemen and are jobs that earn salaries of less than $50,000 a year.
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