Posted on 04/01/2011 10:41:44 AM PDT by kcvl
Springsteen writes Letter to the Editor
NEPTUNE, N.J. (AP) — Bruce Springsteen has written a Letter to the Editor to what he calls his hometown newspaper.
Springsteen on Thursday thanked the Asbury Park Press for a March 27 article about how anti-poverty groups in New Jersey are facing an uphill battle as Gov. Chris Christie seeks to cut spending and property taxes.
Springsteen writes that the "article shows that the cuts are eating away at the lower edges of the middle class, not just those already classified as in poverty."
Springsteen says it will "likely to contin ue to get worse over the next few years."
The letter is signed: Bruce Springsteen, Colts Neck.
It reminds me of all the well-intended government handouts to farmers. They mostly just benefit wealthy farmers and people like Bon Jovi, who pays only $100 in state property taxes on many acres of land. Because he raises honey bees, he qualifies for a honey bee subsidy.
Bruce Springsteen also owns acres of property in New Jersey, but pays little tax on it because an organic farmer works the land.
Bruce, just cut an album specifically for the causes you support, and do a concert tour with all the proceeds going to those causes. After you’ve done that, come back and try again to convince us why we should all pay more taxes.
Bruce, just cut an album specifically for the causes you support, and do a concert tour with all the proceeds going to those causes. After you’ve done that, come back and try again to convince us why we should all pay more taxes.
Well he’s got more money than he can ever use why doesn’t he practice what he preaches and make up the difference himself? Liberals are completely oblivious to their own hypocrisy.
Cindie
“just cut an album” = lay down some digital tracks you can sell.. I’m starting to feel old.
The USA spends approximately $315 billion a year on entitlements to help the poorest Americans.
Springstein - fourth-highest-grossing tour in 2008, bringing in $166 million
2010 Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band came in at nearly $30 million
Bruce Springsteen - net worth is $100 Million
U2, AC/DC, Bruce Springsteen and Madonna collectively made an estimated $372 million between June 2009 and June 2010
FACT: New Jersey has the highest propety taxes of any state in the Union. FACT: Springsteen is an idiot.
Probably heard Rush’s version of “Born in the U.S.A”.
Just shut up and sing, Bruce...............on second thought, just shut up........I never liked your overhyped music anyway.............
Bruce Springsteen- speaking for the Little Guy since 1972.
Tax expert & faux farmer Springsteen pays low taxes on his 200 acre estate. No wonder he doesn’t care about New Jersey’s high taxes.
Farm Aid? Springsteen And Bon Jovi Pay Practically Zero Dollars In Taxes On Their 100s Of Acres
Fox News reports that due to subsidies Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi pay practically nothing in taxes for their farmlands.
Springsteen owns 200 acres in New Jersey. He pays $5K a year in taxes.
Through a trust, Bruce Springsteen owns more than 200 acres in Colts Neck. the taxes for his house and three acres are more than $138,000. But because of the farm tax break, the tax bill on a little more than 200 additional acres is less than $5,000. Town officials say he has horses and an organic farmer working some of the land. A lawyer for the trust had no comment.
In another part of Monmouth County, Bon Jovi has an estate on the Navesink River. Taxes on the mansion and some property add up to $295,68 but his tax bill on an additional 6.85 aces is $104 because he raises honeybees.
A spokesman for Bon Jovi issued a statement saying, “Jon is scrupulous about paying his fair share of taxes. The exemption for raising honey bees existed long before he purchased that land, and he continues to employ a beekeeper and raise honeybees…”
Max Weinberg, E-Street Band drummer, and former band leader on Late Night With Conan O’Brien owns 36 heavily wooded acres near Bon Jovi. Taxes on his home and two acres are $49,068. But the tax bill for the additional 34 acres is $122 because he sells wood.
If Springsteen REALLY cares about the middle class, he could turn over ALL of his royalties from the Born to Run along with Born in the USA LP/CD sales to charitable organizations but we all know Bruce doesn’t REALLY care about the middle class anyway.
He lost his working class roots right around the No Nuke concert of ‘79.
I am glad he is keeping his opinions to an obscure op ed in NJ instead of putting them to music and blanketing the US airwaves. This guy is way overrated.
2004
Bruce Springsteen says that President Bush only lowered the taxes for the rich and now the middle class and the poor pay most of the taxes in this country
Springsteen’s “No Surrender” became the main campaign theme song for John Kerry’s unsuccessful presidential campaign; in the last days of the campaign, he performed acoustic versions of the song and some of his other old songs at Kerry rallies.
Springsteen supported Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, announcing his endorsement in April 2008 and going on to appear at several Obama rallies as well as performing several solo acoustic performances in support of Obama’s campaign throughout 2008
Sh*t, Bruce, why don’t you get out your checkbook if you’re so concerned?
It’s douchebags like you that put Christie in the position he’s in in the first place.
Bruce Springsteen is upset because patriotic Americans object to his anti-victory music. (Drudge Report 20 September 2007). In this twerp’s political world patriotism is wishing defeat for your country. Now where did this ignoramus get his anti-American views? He got them from Brandeis-educated Jon Landau, a vicious America-hating leftist. A man who supported the communist conquest of South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. The same loathsome creature who is working to subvert the war against al Qaeda. No wonder Springsteen supports the Soros-Heinz funded anti-American groups MoveOn.org and Americans Coming Together. He also supports the vicious Christic Institute, the same lying leftwing outfit that backed the Soviet Union during the Cold War and every leftwing Latin American goon you can think of, including Chavez. Without a doubt these creeps thoroughly deserve each other.
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John Kerry and Bruce Springsteen have one basic thing in common: They are both liars. Springsteen is organising a ‘music tour’ in the hope of raising $44 million for the John Kerry election campaign. (So much for Springsteen’s respect for Campaign Finance Reform). The extreme leftwing organisations ACT and MoveOn.org are the apparent principals behind Springsteen’s political charade. However, standing behind these hate groups is the Bush-hating George Soros, the man who equated President George Bush with Adolph Hitler.
Springsteen tried to weasel his way out of his brazen hypocrisy by claiming that recent events politicised him and until then he had “always stayed one step away from partisan politics.” Not only is Springsteen a liar he is, like John Kerry, also a moral coward. Springsteen has always been a leftwinger who never hesitated to politicize rock. From day one of his career he supported leftist causes. In the eighties he, like John Kerry, opposed President Reagan’s foreign policy, the delicious fruit of which was the collapse of the Soviet Union and the freeing of Eastern Europe.
If Leftists like Springsteen and Kerry had succeeded in stopping Reagan an aggressive, though aging, totalitarian Soviet Union would still be threatening the world. But in the “progressive” eyes of Springsteen and John Kerry it was America and not the Soviet empire that posed the real threat to world peace.
In his New York Times article (also published in the Melbourne Age) Springsteen asked: “Why is it that the wealthiest nation in the world finds it so hard to keep its promise and faith with its weakest citizens?” But exactly what promises have been broken and who broke them? Springsteen does not say. He evidently finds it easier to pose vague sneering questions than to produce a solidly reasoned argument.
http://www.brookesnews.com/041608-john-kerry.html
According to Springsteen John Kerry and John Edwards would give Americans “an administration that places a priority on fairness, curiosity, openness…”
Well, Bruce, you talentless communist, pay your “fair share” of the taxes. Or better yet, donate some of your millions to the charities you want the taxpayers to support and deduct your donation from your taxes.
If there was a 100% tax rate; these people would still say people should be taxed more.
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