[magellan]

Somewhere a village has lost its idiot.

[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!

[mjp]

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.

[dfwgator]

Well....Well...Well....what do we have here?

Senate cuts movie-industry tax break from stimulus bill

Note who is for the tax breaks, and who isn't.

[Milton Miteybad]

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. ;-)

[NoGrayZone]

""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!

[dalereed]

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!

[yup2394871293]

Not paying enough Matt? Then donate more of your $$$$ to the government or shut up.

[libertarian neocon]

If he wants to give up his money, let him. No reason to make others do the same at the point of a gun. Also, we already have the most progressive tax system among the OECD http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/27134.html

[Tzimisce]

It sucks that rich people like me can live the way we do....

[EGPWS]

....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.

[kcvl]

“the wealthy are not paying higher taxes”

Matt, make your checks payble to:

Internal Revenue Service Center
P. O. Box 802502
Cincinnati, OH 45280-2502

[opentalk]

He is an idiot and a useful player in their propaganda machine. Higher taxes cannot fix this. Plus it would be like giving an irresponsible teenager more money to spend with No accountability, no budget, no taking the keys away...

[CodeToad]

Liberals keep saying tax the rich, yet, even if you took 100% of all their money right now it wouldn’t equal $1 trillion, half of just this years debt.

Hollywierd types cannot do basic math.

[reagan_fanatic]

Matt Damon is a mental midget.