Opie Taylor: Tax the Rich

The Daily Caller ^ | 09/21/2011 | Jeff Poor

[martosko]

Life was simpler in the fictional town of Mayberry, N.C., where “The Andy Griffith Show” was set, and images of Sheriff Andy Taylor and his son Opie evoke a more prosperous America. But did the mystique of that setting include a 90 percent tax rate on the wealthy?

On MSNBC Wednesday, appearing from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., director and producer Ron Howard said he would be open to the wealthy paying more taxes.

[slumber1]

That’s right. It’s the fat cat businessmen like Floyd the barber who aren’t paying their fair share. Somebody get the tar and feathers

[massgopguy]

Greenwich CT. “Home to many Hedge Funds” “90% White”. Down with the struggle eh Opie?

[MrB]

Everyone who wants to force everyone else to pay for a stranger’s healthcare or health insurance needs to pony up the receipts where they’ve done so voluntarily

before putting a gun to the rest of our heads.

(Liberals HATE it when you remind them that all their policies are done at gunpoint. It really kills their “I’m a good person” buzz.)

[Baynative]

"...appearing from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., director and producer Ron Howard said he would be open to the wealthy paying more taxes."

Then why aren't they? They are all free to send in as much as they like.

Hey, I've got an idea: Let's cap the profits allowable from making a movie to $1 Million and give the rest to the government. After all, everyone knows that's not real work!

[kcvl]

10/11/10 4:41 PM EDT
We all know the stereotype: Hollywood is filled to the brim with die-hard liberals.

Actor Clint Howard doesn’t disagree.

“The entertainment business is a liberal business,” Howard, whose brother is actor/director Ron Howard, told POLITICO. “There are more liberals working in the business than conservatives. By a long shot, we understand that.”

Still Howard said that conservatives have found their own little comfort zone in Tinseltown.

“There is a growing fellowship of conservative-minded people in our business, and that has given me a nice place to go and nice people to be with,” he said.

Howard, who’s had small roles in such films as “Apollo 13,” “Austin Powers,” “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and “The Waterboy,” has decided “to come out of the conservative closet,” as he puts it, and has begun appearing in conservative-leaning web videos for Heritage Action for America, the Heritage Foundation’s advocacy arm. In them, Howard plays a congressman.

“If I can help out and if I can support causes that I believe in — whether they be local candidates or whether they be a national issue — I feel a little more fortified to step up and do my part,” he said.

Ron Howard supported Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008. But Clint told POLITICO that any report of a politically-created rift between the two brothers would be overblown.

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

...director and producer Ron Howard said he would be open to the wealthy paying more taxes.

Evidently Opie is unaware that the top 0.1% of taxpayers pay more than the bottom 80% combined.

I bet Opie takes advantage of all the tax rebates he can find when he produces a movie though.

[wally_bert]

I had heard rumors about Chachi being a Republican here and there and am glad to know of it. Thanks.

[LibLieSlayer]

Tax anyone like opie that has more than 50 million dollars with a wealth tax taking 50% of everything that they own.

LLS

[kcvl]

http://cf2.vgtstatic.com/thumbll/6/9/69546-v1.jpg

The family lives on a 35-acre estate in the exclusive gated community of Conyers Farm in Greenwich, Connecticut.

[Gene Eric]

A Fascist alliance to bring down small business, the primary employer of the American workforce.

[freekitty]

Tax everyone but them.

[MrB]

That’s a twofer -

if you destroy small business and favor big ones,
you bring down capitalism, and narrow the field of what’s left so that they are easier to control.

[dsc]

“Tax anyone like opie that has more than 50 million dollars with a wealth tax taking 50% of everything that they own.”

Only 50? Surely they’re much more compassionate and caring than that.

Take it all. And give it to me.

[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

They really do think we care what they think. He will walk it back when he learns that Clinton just said it would be a bad idea.

[onedoug]

You first, Opie.

[Rumplemeyer]

We’re already doing that (taxing the rich).

Next idea please.

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How about taxing EVERYONE at same rate, say 18% no deductions and no tax credits, just 18% of your income...and one other thing, no weekly payment to the taxman, payment due from you by April 15.

[jtal]

that’s one helluva carbon footprint!

[Rumplemeyer]

We’re already doing that (taxing the rich).

Next idea please.

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How about taxing EVERYONE at same rate, say 18% no deductions and no tax credits, just 18% of your income...and one other thing, no weekly payment to the taxman, payment due from you by April 15.

[Jim Scott]

It's a shame these clueless leftists from Hollywood get so much publicity for their predictably communist-flavored views. Ron Howard, with palatial homes in swanky Beverly Hills California and hyper-exclusive Greenwich, Connecticut 'is open' to taxing the 'rich' at higher rates. I suppose, because Ron Howard is wealthy, this is supposed to drive home the point that even the rich want to pay higher taxes, which is not only an absurd fallacy but side-steps the reality that the 'rich' already pay the biggest share of taxes and that hitting them harder out of some class-envy, mathematically-challenged concept that this somehow will solve America debt problem is sheer stupidity. As we all know, the U.S. government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem and taxing the 'rich' at higher rates won't begin to fix it. That supposedly clever people like Ron Howard (who is good at what he does - directing movies, not economics) foolishly buy into Obamas attempt to use class envy to get his latest tax increase passed is frustrating but hardly surprising. Ron Howard is a member in good standing of the show business club and being a brain dead liberal is a major requirement of membership. Congratulations, Ron. Your membership has just been renewed.

[KosmicKitty]

Opie’s showing his grasp of economics, bless his heart. *

*bless your heart - phrase used by Southern women to excuse themselves for speaking ill of someone else.