Posted on 03/12/2005 9:55:27 PM PST by NormsRevenge
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Warren Beatty, an actor who has dabbled in politics across four decades, has some words of advice for fellow film star and now Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Schwarzenegger should raise taxes on the California rich and "terminate" his fund-raising and dinners with "the brokers of Wall Street" and the "lobbyists of K Street," Beatty said.
Receiving a political award Friday night, the actor who played Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth in the 1998 movie, "Bulworth," said: "Arnold. Be the action hero I know you can be. Be strong. Stand up and confront the wealthiest 1 percent of Californians who have benefited $12 billion a year from the Bush tax cuts."
Beatty received the third annual Phillip Burton public service award Friday from the Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights for a lifetime of political work. Burton was a liberal San Francisco congressman who died in 1983.
Beatty said he wants to root for a fellow actor in the governor's office, but said he's disappointed that Schwarzenegger is yielding "to a reactionary right-wing agenda in order to get a political party to become a president. That's not so fine with me. It makes me sad for Arnold."
Beatty said Schwarzenegger should lead the rich toward helping California.
"It's called the haves giving a little more to the have nots," he said. "Nobody likes taxes, but everybody likes a peaceful, compassionate, law-abiding, productive, protective society."
Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Vince Sollitto replied Saturday: "Tax and spend rhetoric aside, California needs budget reform because it's not a revenue problem, but a spending problem."
Beatty, like Sheen, mistakes film fantasy for reality.
We need a Barf Alert on this one. : )
I am sure Beatty refused his tax cut.
*yawn*......*belch*....sorry Warren....I almost mistook you for someone who knows something
*Barf Alert* ping!
Hey, Warren, just pull a condom over your brain next time & save us all the meaningless blather.
Bingo!
I think you're right about that. If these actors and rich Democrats were sincere, they'd simply pay more or donate to the state. Otherwise, the Democrats are monomaniacs when it comes to economics. Raising taxes is their only idea, and it's spoken as a mantra.
Which is something the scumbag liberal Democrats will NEVER understand.
Isn't it generous of Mr. Beatty to volunteer other people's money, though.
But he has such purty hair....
Bump for excellence in posting.
Thank you! You are most kind.
Let's start with a tax hike on Hollyweird, all Hollyweird movies will now pay 72% of the profits to the state. All Hollyweird actors will pay 82% to the state. I'd vote for that !
The quintessential definition of socialism.
I think you're right. Beatty, Striesand, Sheen should all lead by example by putting their money where their mouth is.
More like Sen. Bull$#%+.
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