She kinda looks like she could be a Judd.
Posted on 05/31/2011 8:49:06 AM PDT by Cowman
Chart-Topping UK Singer Comes Out Against National Health Care, High Taxes • Posted on May 31, 2011 at 10:51am by Jonathon M. Seidl If you’re a popular actor or singer, revealing yourself as someone with conservative principles is close to career suicide. Conservatives in Hollywood and the top-40 music industry are few and far between. But don‘t tell that to one of today’s most popular singers in both the UK and the US.
Adele — the curvy, plain-looking British woman with a raspy voice — is currently one the hottest singers on the radio. But now she’s taking heat not for her the melodic notes coming out her mouth, but for her words. Just get a load of what she said recently about nationalized health care and high taxes:
“I’m mortified to have to pay 50 per cent! [While] I use the NHS, I can’t use public transport any more. Trains are always late, most state schools are s**t, and I’ve gotta give you, like, four million quid – are you having a laugh? When I got my tax bill in from [her album] 19, I was ready to go and buy a gun and randomly open fire.” Adele‘s comments come during a time in Britain where many of the country’s youth are blasting austerity. Consequently, the comments have been panned.
“Now, I love Adele. But that doesn’t exactly endear you to her, does it?” writes Guardian blogger Rob Fitzpatrick. He goes on to make a case that Adele pays nothing compared to the Beatles, who complained about being taxed at 95 percent.
But at least one Brit is praising her comments. James Delingpole writes in The London Telegraph that Adele is truly being unique and different by disavowing the “socialist principles” in showbiz: A rock star can get away with many vices – from drugs to Satan worship to on-stage bat decapitation – but the one perversion that remains absolutely verboten is the kind of conservatism expressed by Adele. Rock stars, after all, are traditionally supposed to be champions of the underdog. Their fans may permit them the odd stately home or private jet, but what they absolutely won’t forgive is any sign that they’ve abandoned their socialist principles. That would be “selling out”. Adele, your openness, fearlessness and integrity puts the rest of your industry to shame.
Good to see that some in the UK have some sense though
She will move to Monaco or the Caynan Islands. The US is no tax haven.
Good for her. That gal has one heck of a voice. She has released a song called rolling in the thunder (I believe) which is the first time I heard her. Man... Young...about 22. I was really hoping she wouldn’t wreck herself by coming out with liberal/insane stuff like Gaga.
So far so good though. She sounds like a really sensible woman. Raised in a single parent household no less.
She kinda looks like she could be a Judd.
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Good for her. She doesn’t fit into the entertainment stereotype of female singers and the girl can sing.
I remember reading that when Ronald Reagan was a movie actor, he was taxed at 90% and that turned him into a conservative. The Beatles were taxed at 95%? That is ridiculous. I don’t care how rich someone is, the government has no right to take that much of anyone’s money. It’s pure slavery.
Those that have not had a chance to see/hear her, look her up on You Tube singing Someone Like You.
No she is not country.
>> “I’m mortified to have to pay 50 per cent! [While] I use the NHS, I can’t use public transport any more. Trains are always late, most state schools are s**t, and I’ve gotta give you, like, four million quid – are you having a laugh? When I got my tax bill in from [her album] 19, I was ready to go and buy a gun and randomly open fire.” Adele‘s comments come during a time in Britain where many of the country’s youth are blasting austerity.
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Just shows you how far left the limeys are. The “tax him” approach. A liberal’s ONLY solution is to tax anything. A true independent smart thinker will say “wait a minute, let’s think this thru before you raise my taxes..” More power to her.
It’s too bad they seem to be in the minority. When traveling through England in 2002, I could see things taking a turn for the worse, even in the town of Bath, home of the Jane Austen Museum. A Scottish friend who frequently visits the Cotswolds in the English countryside has noticed that even village bureaucrats have picked up on PC language and behavior, bending over backwards for the “Asian” community (British code for Pakistanis, mostly Muslim).
I WAS a liberal in high school. Then I worked for McDonald’s one summer during high school because I wanted to buy a cool car for the following year, saw how much the govt was stealing from me, and I automatically swerved right. This girl just figured it out late but she still figured it out.
“Plain-looking”? She’s beautiful!
How refreshing. I’ve liked her for years. Here she covers Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0put0_a—Ng&feature=related
That's the funniest post I've seen in at least a month.
Why is it any more wrong to take 90% than it is to take 40% or even 10%?
Te income tax is slavish in premise. The 16th amendment was designed to control the people and empower the federal government. Even beyond the outrageous tax rates we now suffer this form of direct taxation requires the government to dossier the people and punish those who refuse to submit their papers for approval.
The Fair Tax has problems but none that are as intrusive as the current system. (actually I favor a flat retail tax rather than the FT) We need to repeal the 16th amendment and quite possibly chisel TR's face off Mt Rushmore.
The first job got me too. Worse, it was union. All the union did was make it difficult for my manager to be flexible so I could have two jobs (seniority thing). Then there were the taxes.
Can we turn TR into Reagan somehow?
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