Tuesday, March 15, 2011
High Profile Idiots
Another celebrity rich guy mouths off about how the rich don't pay enough in taxes. This time it's Stephen King, one of my favorite authors. I will read him no longer.
King has joined many other high profile rich people who think Americans, especially "the rich" should be taxed at higher rates. Warren Buffet complained that his secretary was taxed at a higher rate than he was. Duh, differences between capital gains and earned income.
Bill Gates and his father spearheaded efforts last year to increase taxes on the rich in their home state of Washington, saying the rich can afford more taxes and should be paying more taxes. The effort failed.
Michael Moore stupidly spouts that their isn't a money problem in America, we have plenty of money here, it just isn't in the control of the government. Wow.
All high profile idiots demonstrating their lack of knowledge of America, our country. If any one of these high profile idiots really, truly wanted to pay more taxes to the government, they are perfectly free to do so. The government will most certainly accept their check, no questions asked.
But they will never do that simple thing. I don't know why, but these folks feel that they must drag everybody else into the discussion and force higher taxes on us all. Misery loves company, that's true, but these people don't act miserable. I see it as kind of a holier-than-thou attitude so perverse in elitist circles which is where rich liberal people hang out.
Stuff it! Put up or shut up and leave the criticisms out of it. Mr, Gates and his kind should immediately write very large checks to the federal government to show others how it is done. Warren Buffet should buy out Government Motors and funnel any and all profit he may get out of the business to the imperial federal government as well.
Stephen King should just shut up. At least Charlie Sheen has been very good at making an ass out of himself on a grand scale. That's entertainment. Will he ever complain that he isn't taxed enough?
The people who are so loaded with money they don't know how to spend it or invest it fast enough to satisfy themselves have no business lecturing us on the need for them to pay higher taxes. Just f...ing pay higher taxes and STFU. We don't need to preached to by the likes of people like you.
I have had a lot of respect for these people at times in my life for the things they have done and accomplished with, often times, very daunting circumstances in front of them. They have changed the world in many wonderful profound ways. However, to listen to some of them later in life, it's as if they have learned nothing about how the world works or how they got to the positions that they are now in.
Making a lot of money does not make you any wiser. In many cases it has just the opposite effect. But it isn't the money that does it. It's the power. Money buys power and power is corrupting, in many ways.
High Profile Idiots believe they have avoided that corruption and can speak for everyone.
They don't speak for me.
OH
King has joined many other high profile rich people who think Americans, especially "the rich" should be taxed at higher rates. Warren Buffet complained that his secretary was taxed at a higher rate than he was. Duh, differences between capital gains and earned income.
Bill Gates and his father spearheaded efforts last year to increase taxes on the rich in their home state of Washington, saying the rich can afford more taxes and should be paying more taxes. The effort failed.
Michael Moore stupidly spouts that their isn't a money problem in America, we have plenty of money here, it just isn't in the control of the government. Wow.
All high profile idiots demonstrating their lack of knowledge of America, our country. If any one of these high profile idiots really, truly wanted to pay more taxes to the government, they are perfectly free to do so. The government will most certainly accept their check, no questions asked.
But they will never do that simple thing. I don't know why, but these folks feel that they must drag everybody else into the discussion and force higher taxes on us all. Misery loves company, that's true, but these people don't act miserable. I see it as kind of a holier-than-thou attitude so perverse in elitist circles which is where rich liberal people hang out.
Stuff it! Put up or shut up and leave the criticisms out of it. Mr, Gates and his kind should immediately write very large checks to the federal government to show others how it is done. Warren Buffet should buy out Government Motors and funnel any and all profit he may get out of the business to the imperial federal government as well.
Stephen King should just shut up. At least Charlie Sheen has been very good at making an ass out of himself on a grand scale. That's entertainment. Will he ever complain that he isn't taxed enough?
The people who are so loaded with money they don't know how to spend it or invest it fast enough to satisfy themselves have no business lecturing us on the need for them to pay higher taxes. Just f...ing pay higher taxes and STFU. We don't need to preached to by the likes of people like you.
I have had a lot of respect for these people at times in my life for the things they have done and accomplished with, often times, very daunting circumstances in front of them. They have changed the world in many wonderful profound ways. However, to listen to some of them later in life, it's as if they have learned nothing about how the world works or how they got to the positions that they are now in.
Making a lot of money does not make you any wiser. In many cases it has just the opposite effect. But it isn't the money that does it. It's the power. Money buys power and power is corrupting, in many ways.
High Profile Idiots believe they have avoided that corruption and can speak for everyone.
They don't speak for me.
OH
# posted by OH @ 7:07 AM 
