... Then F1 could give them a special deal like the Yankees and tax them 30% on their revenue to be shared among the poor teams.
.... Tell me Spanky, how much of Ferrari's earned income went to any of the lesser teams?
...lets pretend Ferrari dont keep ... all the revenue plus an effective negative contribution to the poorer teams (by the percentage they get off the top of the available pot)
Now this idea simply must have come from the ingenious ideas department.
You know what, Ferrari absolutely agree with your idea. All teams hand over 30% of their revenue and each team gets one tenth of it. Mercedes hands over 30% of their global revenue to the 10 F1 teams. Red Bull hands over 30% of their global sales. Ferrari puts in 30% of their sales and gets one tenth of the pool. My quick sums means that gives each team about $3 billion a year - who needs budget caps. 
Maybe you could explain to us in simple English using standard arithmetic the following;
Formula 1 teams are independent companies, normally subsidiaries of the manufacturer. Therefore the revenue we are talking about are revenues generated by the F1 entity. Like in the MLB example that has appeared to confuse you, however the MLB team doesnt have a manufacturer parent.
So please tell us, how Mercedes are meant to legally hand over 30% of all revenues, do you mean from Daimler? Lets keep it simple, say Merc AMG, how is their revenue derived? Yes from F1 income, sponsors , merchandising, marketing, maybe a bit of tech sales to other teams. Ok so far?
Same as Ferrari.
So if both teams are just about managing to run at or below breakeven, with funding from the parent in lieu of advertising or PR or whatever it might be labelled as, what revenues do you propose they hand over?
Ok let say you were a bit confused and were referring to the merchandising and such trackside revenue, like with the deal cut by the Yankees (they have a tv channel, which is where the big revenue mentioned by operaman comes in, unlike many of the other teams )
So Ferrari and Merc hand over all the rights to sell merchandise and tshirts etc to the FOM and get 10% of the total earned by all teams, in that case they might turn round and point out that its unfair that Marussia are leveraging their 'history'
This is where it gets exciting, guess what?, at the moment Ferrari keep ALL their merchandising etc and give nada to the FOM, therefore they dont contribute to the poorer teams in any way. In fact like I said before they actually make a negative contribution towards the welfare of the poorer teams by ripping a percentage off the top of FOM revenue BEFORE the split for WCC placing or participation.
So Ferrari would be better off keeping 100% of their revenue and not giving up 30% as they do now rather than your somewhat lame suggestion that they and the other teams chuck their global revenues all in and get 10% - This is exactly operamans point, Ferrari keep 100%, get extra and give nothing back, you mentioned the Yankees and he pointed out that they got all that extra money because they made lots from their tv station and give 30% back(which ends up in the poorer teams).
Now we should all be on the same line in the hymn sheet by now
