Posted on 08/08/2011 12:51:06 PM PDT by 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.
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cause is why...
Why are libtards in general so dumb: Emotionalism, evasion of reality, and irrational skepticism makes them stupid, and being stuck on stupid keeps them stupid.
I’ve stated my position in post #78. If that’s not to your liking, tough.
I had to read "Death of a Salesman" in high school (along with "Catcher in the Rye"). It was a painful waste of time. Then we had to have the usual English class discussion about "what it all means." Eurgh.
So you missed the “only”, thought you’d be clever and throw Reagan in there, and got called out on it.
Don’t like it? Tough.
“Should we look to kings and princes to put right the inequalities between rich and poor? Should we require soldiers to come and seize the rich person’s gold and distribute it among his destitute neighbors? Should we beg the emperor to impose a tax on the rich so great that it reduces them to the level of the poor and then to share the proceeds of that tax among everyone? Equality imposed by force would achieve nothing, and do much harm. Those who combined both cruel hearts and sharp minds would soon find ways of making themselves rich again.Let Mr. Damon follow Christ's exhortation to sell all that he has and give to the poor if he feels the way he does, and leave Caesar out of the transaction.Worse still, the rich whose gold was taken away would feel bitter and resentful; while the poor who received the gold from the hands of soldiers would feel no gratitude, because no generosity would have prompted the gift. Far from bringing moral benefit to society, it would actually do moral harm. Material justice cannot be accomplished by compulsion, a change of heart will not follow. The only way to achieve true justice is to change people’s hearts first—and then they will joyfully share their wealth.”
-– St. John Chrysostom on the poor from On Living Simply XLIII
He’s just parroting what everyone else in hollywierd is saying. It’s obvious after watching the video he hasn’t a clue what he’s talking about. My autistic daughter used to do the same thing. Just parrot whatever you said, mindlessly without having a clue what she just said.
I almost did once. It was back when living where such things were in small regard.
Shakespeare would be proud.
“...Just make out your check to the US Treasury and send it in, they’ll take it. I challenge liberals to do this all the time when they start their “more taxes” jive...”
About four years ago, liberals in Minnesota formed a group called “Happy To Pay For A Better Minnesota”. They even put up lawnsigns in many areas - usually liberal areas of the Twin Cities.
In return, then-Gov Pawlenty set up a fund at the Minnesota Department of Revenue in which those who felt they weren’t paying nearly enough in taxes could make a voluntary donation.
Not surprisingly, they weren’t many takers.
I like it. Even if you put it on a per hour basis.
Every time one of these Jag-offs open their mouth about what should be done nationwide, someone should introduce a bill to do exactly the same thing as a pilot program in the entertainment industry. Some of this legislation might become law leading entertainment jag-offs to actually think things through the next time they feel prompted to open their pie hole.
I have it on good authority that a little known original copy of Richard III did have it as "My kingdom for a wurst". But I promised I'd never reveal that authority...
Also, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, which is a thinly disguised portrayal of the McCarthy era as a "witch-hunt". The Catcher in the Rye is such a boring portrait of a boring loser. I don't know why we had to read it back then. But it seems kind of topical now, though. I'm sure Holden Caulfield would be tweeting his boring ass off today like all the rest of a bored and boring generation of self important time-wasters.
ummmmm, you might want to look up the meaning of the word ‘avocation’ before using it ;)
Let me point out you didn’t compare Damon to Hope/Stewart, et al. You chose to make a one on one comparison to Reagan. In truth, Damon is probably a better actor than Reagan was. He might also one day mature and develop a reasonable, coherent political philosophy as did Reagan (whether one agrees with it or not).
In the meanwhile, I really don’t care to hear what these celebrities have to say. Let them act/sing or otherwise exhibit their creative talents, but let them not preach to me and others about what they think we should do.
I stand corrected on my use of avocation. But I stand by my original remark. Cherry picking “only” out of the statement I was replying to is nitpicking. The entire remark was meant to degrade actors. I pointed out that Reagan too was an actor, yet everyone wants to criticize me for that. Well, I’m happy you’re having so much fun, but I will not take back what I said. Don’t like it? Don’t agree? I couldn’t care less.
Damon can easily spread his money around, as can all other Hollywood libs. Many charitable organizations are only too eager to relieve his of his money and his guilt. But he and the others won’t do it.
It was either that or they had the choice one year to pay their tax under the "old" system, which had higher tax liability basically across the board. Or they could pay under the "new" rates, which were lower. I think essentially everyone, including John Kerry, elected to go with the lower rates.
Its the same old story. Liberals want higher taxes, but not on them.
A better “coming of age” novel (actually a trilogy) is an almost-forgotten work, James T.Farrel’s Studs Lonigan.
The Good Shepherd, Green Zone, The Adjustment Bureau, the Bourne series, all drive this point home aggressively. Even his roles in The Informant! and The Departed support this theme. Even his roles in The Informant! and The Departed support this theme.
In The Informant! Damon's character's conspiracy theories turn out to be his own crazy inventions. There's a few more twists than that, but the movie doesn't quite fit your thesis. Whatever corruption the business men were involved in is only the set-up for a movie that takes a very different turn.
In The Departed the conspiracy is composed of traditional bad guys: the kind of mobsters who've been villains in film for eighty years. Again, there's more to it than that, twists and connections that complicate things, but really a movie showing corruption in Boston isn't exactly an indictment against the United States (Ask Howie Carr).
Those two pictures are more complicated than your view of them. I'm not saying that your general idea is wrong, but you take it too far.
FWIW: I saw The Adjustment Bureau this weekend. What an awful picture. Message: God wants us to make Andrew Weiner President. Or something along those lines. Apart from that, the movie would have benefited from the futuristic setting of the other films based on Philip K. Dick novels. Apparently the original story had a science fiction feel that was lost in the movie.
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