Matt Damon on debt limit: 'I'm so disgusted,' 'it's criminal' wealthy are not paying higher taxes

NicholasBallasy.com ^ | July 30, 2011 | Nicholas Ballasy

[VRWC For Truth]

Only criminals engage in class warfare. Damon, ESAD.

[tobyhill]

The GOP should pass a law requiring the IRS to put on every tax form a section for a voluntary tax increase.
Let’s see how may of these Liberal Hypocrites check the box?

[Behind Liberal Lines]

In ALL seriousness, Republicans should be consistently pointing out the huge profits in the entertainment industry and demanding that all tax breaks be eliminated for “big hollywood.”

[wastedyears]

So why doesn’t he pay more taxes? It’s an option.

[Darksheare]

Matt Damon is only okay with OTHERS paying higher taxes, not himself.
So all he would need to have happen is a confiscatory tax rate destroy his bottom line and he’d scream bloody murder.

He’d probably see it as a right wing conspiracy.
Idiot actually thought ‘they’ would come after him for the lame Bourne film series.

[steelyourfaith]

A very dim bulb.

[newzjunkey]

Someone should ask how much “tax avoidance” he engages in and whether he donates to the Treasury.

[kevkrom]

Why not just raise Hollywood tax rate to 95%? How fast would they leave the town?

A lot of film shoots have already "left town" to avoid dealing with unions -- Vancouver is one of the big beneficiaries here.

[dfwgator]

Why doesn’t Matt bother to mention the huge tax breaks Hollywood gets?

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Go ahead Matt, YOU are the rich, give everything you want to give to the government. Feel free, you can do it yourself.

[don-o]

Never heard of him.

[nomobs]

Liberal speak - Long on mouth, short on a real plan, just soak it to everyone but me. Is he a liberal or just a moron - who can tell?

[silverleaf]

wouldn’t we hobbits just love to see Matt Damon’s personal tax returns?

Just to see whether he is paying the “criminal” 35% top federal Bush rates? Plus California state, property and other taxes, of course

and to see if he is being paid to show up at charity fundraisers

These jackwagons from Barky on down, need to be nailed down on what they consider a “FAIR” share

[silverleaf]

wouldn’t we hobbits just love to see Matt Damon’s personal tax returns?

Just to see whether he is paying the “criminal” 35% top federal Bush rates? Plus California state, property and other taxes, of course

and to see if he is being paid to show up at charity fundraisers

These jackwagons from Barky on down, need to be nailed down on what they consider a “FAIR” share

[zbogwan2]

Bill O’Reilly said that Damon and all his Hollywood Libs should mail in their money to help the One and his Mob out. Dumb Clucks like Matt Damon should stick to acting and not make Fools of themselves by talking stupid? I’ll bet if Obama proposed taxing only the Hollywood Mob of actors & Actresses at 70%, they’d all have a cat, so to speak, and march on the White House like Tea Party Terrorists? Sarcasm</>

[McGruff]

We shouldn't revel in the agony of others but

[samtheman]

So why doesn’t he just donate all his money to the Feds?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

FUMD

[OCCASparky]

Damon also said those making over $250,000 per year are not job creators.

Okay, Matt m'boy, if you were were a dumbass schlub (but wait, you are!) making $50K a year, would you have:

-A personal assistant?
-A housekeeper?
-An agent?
-An accountant?
-A nanny for your kids?

And these examples are just off the top of my head. I'm sure my fellow FReepers can think of many, many more examples that you, a person who makes FAR in excess of $250K per year, employs either directly or indirectly. But let's assume you are correct in your asinine statement that the Bush tax cuts didn't "create" a single business. How many businesses stayed around because they COULD afford to stay in business without a crushing tax burden? How many of those existing businesses hired more people because they could afford to do so?

Just because you wrote a screenplay about a guy who went to Harvard, doesn't mean you really are qualified to step foot on the campus, m'boy.

[RowdyFFC]

Somebody, like the IRS, should audit him. He’s a democrat after all. Write out your big check, sir, send it to the department that takes money and applies it directly to pay down the debt!