Why is Matt Damon So Dumb?

The Band of Patriots ^ | 8/3/11 | Bryan Thomas

[bthockey]

As an actor, I absolutely love Matt Damon. The Bourne Ultimatum is one of the best movies I have ever seen. I can watch it again and again without getting tired of it. He is one of my favorite actors. However, his political ideas are some of the stupidest ideas I've ever heard.

Matt Damon has a crazy idea that he, and his fellow millionaires and billionaires, need to be taxed more so that his money can be used to help the world. He doesn't believe that he should have that money but that his money should be spread around and not given to him, but those who are worse off than him. In the interview below, he explains that it is "criminal" that the wealthy aren't paying more in taxes. Also in this interview, Matt Damon has the brilliant idea of taxing the rich more "per million dollars." It's interesting to watch.

[forgotten man]

Reagan learned how to deal with communists when he was president of the Screen Actors Guild.

[combat_boots]

“Ronald Reagan”

...hit a rough spot in his acting career and landed a job going around to speak to car dealerships, IIRC. That’s where he acquired his political chops, by speaking directly with people all over.

I remember watching his 1964 speech live, on a little bitty tv with my folks while we were at a church camp. We were shocked that this was Ronald Reagan, and we all erupted with amazement at the end of it. Reagan’s speech was electrifying, and my dad did something he’d never done before. He called the convention long distance and talked to someone, wanting Reagan to be nominated.

I remember going to the dining room table and watching my dad phoning the convention on one of those old, black phones with the big cordsm, which sat on a little, hip-level phone stand. The room was hot, and the carmel-colored, oak (?) table had a whitish tablecloth on it.

The conversation seemed to last forever, as I look back now; I knew it was a big (read expensive) thing for my dad to do. I sat, leaning my head on my folded arm, just watching my dad in awe. He had on a thin, blue, seersucker shirt. and his usual white t-shirt, talking all the while the little B&W TV played in the corner of the other room. I watched both at the same time, but mostly, my dad.

[combat_boots]

oops

cords,

[New Jersey Realist]

So he should keep what he needs and mail in the rest!

[astyanax]

"Well one had to expect that the Bourne series would be left wing tripe since it was written by Robert Ludlam."
The movie has absolutely NOTHING to do with the book.
It's quite obvious that whoever wrote the screenplay never actually read the book.

[T-Bird45]

I once made the suggestion to a lib on a newspaper article comment forum to make a donation to the US Treasury since he was feeling undertaxed. You would have I thought I suggested selling his children and wife into slavery while donating the proceeds to the US government but he was sure willing to reach into the pockets of the “rich”, however he defined it, in order to make it more “fair”. It makes me smile now, just thinking about how exposed he was while thinking he was showing up the Tea Partier.

[bcsco]

And, I have never heard any one say - my kingdom for a knackwurst

I almost did once. It was back when living where such things were in small regard. Never again!!

Eat hearty.

[Milton Miteybad]

Sorry Matt you fool - you can write a check to the US Treasury anytime you want. Send them your millions and the US Government will put it to good use helping the victims. Myself, I would rather do it through my local community and my church - they don't strip off that huge overhead on the top like the Feds. Nor do I want someone in the District of Corruption deciding who gets what.

Exactly. If Matt Damon finds himself aggrieved over the amount of tax he pays to the feds, all he needs to do is to declare a far higher amount of taxable income, and pay tax on that amount. For instance, if his taxable income this year is $50 million, let him declare $150 million as his taxable income instead, and pay his tax accordingly.

However, the fact that this strategem evidently has not occurred to Mr. Damon causes me to think that he's not nearly the intellectual powerhouse he asks us to believe that he is. Same with Warren Buffett. You'd think that somebody with the reputation for common sense and intelligence Mr. Buffett has would have no trouble whatsoever coming up with this very simple method of assessing higher taxes on himself.

Unless, of course...Messrs. Damon and Buffett really don't believe what they're saying at all, insofar as it concerns them and their actions. Perhaps they both believe, in actuality, in "Higher taxes for thee, but not for me," while publicly singing a far more pious tune.

[New Jersey Realist]

So he should keep what he needs and mail in the rest.

[Polybius]

The real question is why ANYONE would give any credence whatsoever to someone whose only talent is to make faces into a camera while reciting lines that someone much smarter than him wrote.

Are you referring to Matt Damon or Ronald Reagan?

From 1975 to 1979 Ronald Reagan gave more than 1,000 daily radio broadcasts, the great majority of which he wrote himself. .... These addresses .... revise our understanding of the late 1970s - a time when Reagan held no political office, but was nonetheless mapping out a strategy to transform the economy, end the Cold War, and create a vision of America that would propel him to the presidency. These radio programs demonstrate that Reagan had carefully considered nearly every issue he would face as president.

[dfwgator]

Damon also needs to tell his Hollywood Studio pals to stop crying to Uncle Sam for tax breaks for the movie studios.

[woodbutcher1963]

Thats because “The Bourne Identity” was the only one of the three movies that followed the Ludlum books. The other two were not even close.

It is similar to what they did with Clancy’s book “The Sum of all Fears”. They made them politically correct and ruined it.

[onedoug]

The moneyed elite.

[Newton]

LOL!! Matt DAYYYY-MON!!!! (I can’t look at him without saying that!)

[combat_boots]

Matt Damon

$1:29 ROI as of 2007
http://www.zimbio.com/Matt+Damon/articles/48/Movie+Actor+Salaries+Worth

Estimated $65,000,000 net worth
http://www.therichest.org/celebnetworth/celeb/actors/matt-damon-net-worth/

[subterfuge]

The real question is why ANYONE would give any credence whatsoever to someone whose only talent is to make faces into a camera while reciting lines that someone much smarter than him wrote. Are you referring to Matt Damon or Ronald Reagan?

It says "only talent," oh brilliant one.

[RichInOC]

He’s not paid to be smart. He’s paid to act smart.

[subterfuge]

Good thing we have you here as Integrity Police...well done.

[bcsco]

What of the likes of Bob Hope, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Glenn Ford, you name them as far as conservative or libertarian actors go. Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Cheryl Ladd, June Allyson. They never became president of the Screen Actors Guild, governor nor president. Yes, Stewart and Ford were members of the military, but their main avocation was acting.

My point stands. Painting someone with a broad brush because of their avocation is not a good idea. It’s not what a person does for a living, it’s what that person believes about himself, his country, and what that person does with those beliefs. Damon is one example. Reagan, or any of the others Ive mentioned above, another. I don’t care for Damon, don’t like his acting, don’t care for his movies. Don’t care for his political views. But that doesn’t mean that anyone, simply because they’re an actor, should be disparaged because of that one talent.

[astyanax]

He called out Matt Damon on his “only” talent.
So are you willing to share with us all of Matt Damon’s other talents?