It's Good to be King

Soccer is probably the king of sports, world-wide. And the FIFA organization is most definitely the king of soccer. That's the international body that controls soccer with a tighter hand than the communist party controlled the USSR. Did you notice that at the recent World Cup in South Africa, all players standing on the sidelines wore an identical smock, with "FIFA" emblazoned on both sides? That was far from an accident and far from the only example of the power wielded by this sports dictatorship.
Once FIFA decides which country gets the World Cup every 4 years, the "winner" owes the organization, big-time. Belgium and the Netherlands have put in a joint bid to host in 2018 and recently some of the concessions both nations will have to endure, should they be selected, were made public.
Among them:
* no tax will be paid on any income made by FIFA during the games (by the way, FIFA pocketed a cool $2 billion during the recent World Cup. Makes you wonder how much the people of South Africa pocketed...)
* no Value Added Tax (the super sales tax in Europe, running near 20% in most countries) will be paid by any FIFA personnel for anything they buy, including meals and hotel rooms
* a special FIFA-vehicles-only lane must be built onto all highways, "to avoid congestion" (I'm guessing FIFA gets to keep these lanes and take them home with them once the games end)
* my personal fave: all restaurants and bars within a mile of every World Cup stadium will only be allowed to advertise FIFA sponsors, to include Coca Cola, Budweiser, Sony, and Adidas. Additionally, they will be forced to "change their selection of products" during the games, allowing no other brands of competing drinks to be sold.
There have been loads of articles recently about corruption in soccer, world-wide. I wonder how anyone could possibly have come up with such a ridiculous idea...