After the 2025 World Series the Luxury Taxes which the MLB applies to each team has rolled out. And they're massive.
LOS ANGELES -- Sometimes its difficult to understand the scale of revenue that US sports have reached. For example, just the luxury tax that the Dodgers owe now surpases the GDP of many countries. We used Uzbekistan, but if we refer to the Wikipedia list, we can see that actually Kuwait is closer. But countries that end with -stan standout a bit more. This was reported by The Associated Press originally.
What is even more wild is that the baseline to surpass this tax threshold is...241MM. This puts the threshold to get taxed at the GDP of Qatar. One of the highest of the Gulf Coast.
Actually wait, I realized that I was reading the Wikipedia page incorrectly.