The New Excise Tax Frontier: Hollywood

Jefferson's Rebels ^ | 11/26/12 | Erica

[EricaD]

To conservatives like me, the following proposal for raising taxes on Hollywood celebrities goes against my DNA. However, two facts are indisputable: (1) Hollywood is perhaps Obama's biggest booster club, giving him donations in kind and in dollars, and (2) Congress' stated goal is to raise taxes on the wealthy, although they will actually raise them on everyone. Therefore, with a bit of irony in mind, I propose the following for debate.

After listening to Democrats argue that the wealthy aren’t paying their fair share of taxes, it’s time for Americans to take an empirical view of the massive wealth accumulated by Hollywood celebrities at the expense of their fans, and at a great loss to the government coffers.

Since large numbers of celebrities are Democrats and they cheerfully endorse Barack Obama’s tax policies, shouldn’t it be incumbent upon them to lead by example? With this idea in mind, and in the spirit of patriotic bipartisanship, we should push Congress to levy special taxes on the giant honey pots in Hollywood, New York, and elsewhere. The fiscal cliff is looming, so our government needs to devise many ways to satisfy our legislators’ unquenchable thirst to tax and spend.

As the table below of extraordinary net worth reveals, one could argue that celebrities must be picking our pockets every time we enter a theater or purchase music and videos.

http://jeffersonsrebels.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-new-excise-tax-frontier-hollywood.html

[Note: I'm not sure how to use html on FR, otherwise I'd enter the entire article and table in this body.]

[EricaD]

Hollywood fights back the moment their pocketbooks are hit by the taxman. This just out today:

Katy Perry teams up with anti-taxers to fight big government
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/27/Katy-Perry-Teams-Up-With-Anti-Taxers-to-Fight-Big-Government

[Razz Barry]

Just shows what hypocrites they are. Their publicists tell them to back the democrats and call for higher taxes to make the little people think they care. The only thing they care about is making sure the little people keep putting money into their pockets. It’s time they put their money where their mouths are.