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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
Posted on 08/03/2011 9:01:15 AM PDT by magellan
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To: PapaBear3625
What does he think is the income level of the small business owners, the people who run the dry cleaners, the restaurants, the auto repair shops?
The only thing he knows is that he pulls in $24 million per year. Ask him how many jobs his production company (LivePlanet) created and I'm sure he'll talk out of the other side of his mouth.
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:21:13 AM PDT
by
Renderofveils
(My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
To: magellan
it's "criminal" the wealthy are not paying higher taxes. The feelings of some libtards who want to punish the rich is no justification for using force to violate the rights of others.
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:21:13 AM PDT
by
mjp
((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
To: magellan
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:21:47 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: bray
Why not just raise Hollywood tax rate to 95%? How fast would they leave the town?
California is nowhere near that, and yet look at how fast companies move their production facilities to Canada.
CANADA!!!
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:23:14 AM PDT
by
OCCASparky
(Steely-eyed killer of the deep.)
To: stephenjohnbanker
He was an English major that NEVER graduated. So he knows nothing about economics.
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:23:17 AM PDT
by
70th Division
(I love my country but fear my government!)
To: Paladin2
“Damon has had some sort of Marxist brainwashing treatment applied. Sort of like in the movie.”
That would be a great script for a movie spoof about him. How come there isn't a conservative Saturday Night Live type of show with skits like that? It would be great.
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:23:45 AM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
To: magellan
Academy award-winning actor Matt Damon said he is "so disgusted" with what's happening in Washington over the debt limit, claiming that the Tea Party is "willing to drive it all off a cliff" and adding that it's "criminal" the wealthy are not paying higher taxes.
This is precisely why we need a liberal advocacy income surtax. Those who vote to subject their fellow citizens to higher taxes should be assessed an additional 50% levy on top of the rate they currently pay. If you want to vote for liberal Dems, your taxes go up. It could be an assessment made right at the ballot box. Certainly, the technology now exists.
Who could possibly oppose this, as a matter of public policy? Certainly not Matt Damon or Barack Obama. It would be the ultimate in participatory democracy...a form of eco-political "card check," if you will.
Unless, of course, Matt Damon and Barack Obama are lying about their own personal willingness to pay higher taxes. ;-)
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:23:51 AM PDT
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: magellan
""Yes, the wealthy are paying less than they've paid in any time else, certainly in my lifetime."And what on earth is preventing these zillionares to NOT write off anything so that they may contribute more to their "loving gubmit"?
NOTHING!!! They want us middle class to give ALL, but yet allow themselves to give nothing!
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:23:51 AM PDT
by
NoGrayZone
("Islamophobia: The irrational fear of being beheaded." Andrew Klavan of PJTV)
To: magellan
We should reverse the tax code to where the richest pay the least tax and the poorest pay the most!
The rick don’t use the tax funds and the poor consume the most of the tax funds so tax the shit out of them!
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:24:10 AM PDT
by
dalereed
To: SampleMan
“Time for a 95% income tax on stupid actors.”
heh, that’ll take us right out of debt in no time!!!
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:24:23 AM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: magellan
Not paying enough Matt? Then donate more of your $$$$ to the government or shut up.
To: mjp
They don’t want to punish the rich as much as they have this intense need to justify their own existance on this planet by ADVOCATING helping others without actually DOING anything themselves.
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:25:33 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: yup2394871293
Not paying enough Matt? Then donate more of your $$$$ to the government or shut up.And tell your Hollywood pals to stop going to the government and asking for tax breaks.
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:25:58 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: 70th Division
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:26:03 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
To: cripplecreek
A small to medium hvac /construction/plumbing <———pick one company makes a million a year. They would love to get bigger but all the government taxes, vice grips and regs stop them.
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:26:26 AM PDT
by
Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
(It is possible to both promote Palin and support Bachmann at the same time, ya know.)
To: magellan
To: cripplecreek
Let’s call it the Matt Damon Tax. :)
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:26:51 AM PDT
by
BenKenobi
(Honkeys for Herman!)
To: magellan
It sucks that rich people like me can live the way we do....
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:26:55 AM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
To: dalereed
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:27:01 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
To: magellan
....it's "criminal" the wealthy are not paying higher taxes.Not yet, however I have no doubt that it will be soon along with the MC and the poor.
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posted on
08/03/2011 9:27:23 AM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
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