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Taxing Matt Damon
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| September 5, 2011
| John Ransom
Posted on 09/05/2011 4:59:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
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posted on
09/05/2011 4:59:21 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
That's absurd. The tax on them shouldn't be more than 78% but it should be retroactive to 1964 to take into account the property and investments they've all already made by stealing from the masses.
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posted on
09/05/2011 5:06:21 AM PDT
by
Rashputin
(Obama is insane but kept medicated and on golf courses to hide it)
To: Kaslin
I think it’s a great idea. Cut all tax breaks for Hollywood, close the loopholes the “actors” use and let’s see how much they can contribute.
To: sauropod
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posted on
09/05/2011 5:07:34 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(ObaMao: Let them eat peas!)
To: Rashputin
That’s right. Let’s up the ante and force Hollywood to pay reparations.
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posted on
09/05/2011 5:09:38 AM PDT
by
Yardstick
To: Kaslin
“you get to be American”
picking a semantic nit:
actually you get to be AN American ... we are individuals, not part of some collective. at least that’s the way it used to be.
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posted on
09/05/2011 5:11:45 AM PDT
by
fnord
(Republicans are just the right-wing of the left-wing of American politics)
To: McGavin999
“I think its a great idea. Cut all tax breaks for Hollywood, close the loopholes the actors use and lets see how much they can contribute.”
Do the same thing for rockers, rapppers and overpaid basketball, football and baseball players.
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posted on
09/05/2011 5:12:00 AM PDT
by
LottieDah
(If only those who speak so eloquently on behalf of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
To: McGavin999
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posted on
09/05/2011 5:13:09 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: McGavin999
I agree, but suggest we exclude Keanu Reeves from the list. I don’t think he is a particularly good actor, but the guy has given away millions and millions of $$$ without fanfare or attention. Also, he doesn’t preach about politics or homosexuallity (to my knowledge).
So I suggest, we begin making asshats like Matt Damon pay draconian tax rates first, and see how that goes. Let’s make them pay every penny they have to support their liberal agenda.
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posted on
09/05/2011 5:23:22 AM PDT
by
Ernie Kaputnik
((It's a mad, mad, mad world.))
To: Kaslin
What an idiot this guy is.
The problem is that the money NEVER goes to “Reading is Fundamental” or Head Start.
Give your money away to the government, you liberal moron, and watch how much of it goes to waste.
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posted on
09/05/2011 5:31:50 AM PDT
by
incredulous joe
("No road is too long with good company" Turkish Proverb)
To: Ernie Kaputnik
If we're going to have exclusions you have to exclude Denzel Washington and a few others. Better to just tax the hell out of all of them and rebate to them 3 times as much as they've donated to worthwhile things in the past. They should be like everyone else, in other words, take their money first and only later decide whether they get any back and how they get it back. For example, Denzel gave a lot of money to help veterans so he gets cash back. Matt may have given money to something but his “refund” should be in the form of building an asylum with his refund and then naming it for him to show that it was his refund that built it.
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posted on
09/05/2011 5:34:23 AM PDT
by
Rashputin
(Obama is insane but kept medicated and on golf courses to hide it)
To: Kaslin
If you can do it to banks and CEOs, why not actors and film corporations? This stymies me. The public abhors big oil, big banks, and big Wall Street, yet there is nothing but adoration for big Hollywood and big sports.
What's the difference? They're all making millions and are already paying more than enough to be considered "American". Nothing prevents Damon and other hypocrites like him from contributing all their wealth to the government, if they so choose.
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posted on
09/05/2011 5:37:06 AM PDT
by
randita
(Obama - chains you can bereave in.)
To: Kaslin
I really don’t mind paying more taxes.....Then do your W-4 and put a note in the envelope : Here is an extra $4,000,000 for my conscience. Keep it.
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posted on
09/05/2011 5:39:59 AM PDT
by
Safetgiver
(I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
To: Kaslin
After World War II, a 20 percent federal excise tax was imposed on movie ticket sales (actually the gross revenues of movie theaters). Hollywood produced a short film to attack the tax, saying it hurt ticket sales, cost jobs, and put theaters out of business. I saw this film on TCM not too long ago. The tax ultimately was removed.
Perhaps it's time to reinstate the movie excise tax to help reduce the deficit.
To: Kaslin
Having preached this for a long time, I agree with the notion that we need to start putting these INDIVIDUALS for what taxes they are paying. More to the point, anytime these lefties speak out they should not only be asked what tax rate they are paying but to COMMIT to writing a check right then and there to the IRS to pay their fair share.
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posted on
09/05/2011 5:57:40 AM PDT
by
School of Rational Thought
("The proposition that the government is always right is manifested either in corruption or benefits)
To: Rashputin
Nice. I like your idea much better.
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posted on
09/05/2011 5:57:51 AM PDT
by
Ernie Kaputnik
((It's a mad, mad, mad world.))
To: Kaslin
Makes sense to me and they couldn;’t possibly complain because they have already touted taxing the rich and the corporations as “patriotic”.
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posted on
09/05/2011 6:17:12 AM PDT
by
trebb
("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
To: Kaslin
“Michael Moore, the mustard-stained Leni Riefenstahl of the progressive fascists”
Ooooh. That’s a keeper.
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posted on
09/05/2011 6:24:44 AM PDT
by
SuzyQue
To: Kaslin
"Sometimes even when you run an actor, you win. And I guess I only throw his name out there because Id like us to start thinking that way."
Call us back, Michael, when Matt Damon can give a speech like
this , rather than
this. Right now, however, it seems we have
Peter Sellers in the White House. For all of his "I" and "me", it seems that there is no one really there. It is all determined by focus groups.
To: Kaslin
Big oil, big banks and big hollywood. It has a ring to it. Tax the idle rich in big hollywood.
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posted on
09/05/2011 7:46:59 AM PDT
by
healy61
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