Johnny Depp: If socialism is so wonderful then why flee France???

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Johnny Depp - You loved France. They are so much more nuanced and culturally aware and all that jazz; that is until you have to pay to be part of their 'enlightened society.'

Reading about France's 75 percent tax on the rich got me wondering if JD was man enough to stay there (where he had lived for well more than a decade) or if he was as phony as about every other Hollywood a-hole.

So I looked it up:

Johnny Depp moves back to America to avoid paying taxes in France | Celebrity Buzz | a Chron.com blog

Johnny Depp fled France when the socialist candidate was talking about 70 percent taxes and the writing was on the wall.

Oh Johnny. You're just another so-called ugly American like the rest of us.
 
Why the fuck are so many rich folk so opposed to doing their duty and paying their taxes?

Why's it their duty? Because you said so? If you have more money than me then is it your duty to paypal me some duckets?

Everyone has to pay taxes. People who think they shouldn't pay any taxes shouldn't have the right to anything at all.

75 percent is a "fair share?" In principle, you should be working for yourself and your interests (interests that can include charitable giving). Why should you give 3 out of every 4 dollars to a faceless entity? At that point, you are no longer free and you are subject to the bondage of government.
 
The difference is that not wanting to pay 75% of one's income in taxes is perceived by the left as not wanting to pay any taxes at all.

France is going to fail, and do it so horrendously that this will likely bring down the entire eurozone.
 
The ideal and end result of socialism is that the government seizes the business and makes the executives salaried employees working for the government who takes all the profit. The ideal and end result of socialism is communism.
 
Why the fuck are so many rich folk so opposed to doing their duty and paying their taxes?

Why's it their duty? Because you said so? If you have more money than me then is it your duty to paypal me some duckets?

Everyone has to pay taxes. People who think they shouldn't pay any taxes shouldn't have the right to anything at all.

Good point.

Now please hand over 75% of everything you make.
 
Why the fuck are so many rich folk so opposed to doing their duty and paying their taxes?

Why's it their duty? Because you said so? If you have more money than me then is it your duty to paypal me some duckets?

Everyone has to pay taxes. People who think they shouldn't pay any taxes shouldn't have the right to anything at all.

Seriously are you saying that to a 75% income tax? That is ROBBERY! If your total taxes on income (including payroll, SS, State income etc.) exceed 50% than we've become a totalitarianism state!
 
Why the fuck are so many rich folk so opposed to doing their duty and paying their taxes?

Why's it their duty? Because you said so? If you have more money than me then is it your duty to paypal me some duckets?

Everyone has to pay taxes. People who think they shouldn't pay any taxes shouldn't have the right to anything at all.



No, not everyone pays federal taxes.

However those very same who don't pay a red cent in federal taxes, feel that they have a right to have everyone else pay to support them.
 
Why the fuck are so many rich folk so opposed to doing their duty and paying their taxes?

Hey stupid fuck. You do know the "rich" pay the most in taxes, unlike trailer trash (you) and middle class who pay much less.

Need a chart, fuckbrain?
 
Why's it their duty? Because you said so? If you have more money than me then is it your duty to paypal me some duckets?

Everyone has to pay taxes. People who think they shouldn't pay any taxes shouldn't have the right to anything at all.

Seriously are you saying that to a 75% income tax? That is ROBBERY! If your total taxes on income (including payroll, SS, State income etc.) exceed 50% than we've become a totalitarianism state!

He's not saying that he wants to pay 75 percent. He's saying he wants your 75 percent. John Kerry hid his yacht from taxes. Tim Geitner evaded his taxes. Johnny Depp fleed the left's celestial France to avoid taxes. Will Smith balked at the idea of paying 70 percent taxes. The left loves the political football of paying more and we're all in this together but then they run when it's time to step up to the plate.

This is what the right has been saying. IF people weren't constantly looking out for their self interests then their plan would be great. BUT we are not going to ignore that reality. The butcher doesn't cut your meat b/c he doesn't want you to starve. He wants his fair share. Your fair share is not what you get, but what you earn.
 
Taxation is theft by force. You didn't pay? Send in the men in blue costumes to hall you off! Or maybe confiscate your belongings.
 
Everyone has to pay taxes. People who think they shouldn't pay any taxes shouldn't have the right to anything at all.

Seriously are you saying that to a 75% income tax? That is ROBBERY! If your total taxes on income (including payroll, SS, State income etc.) exceed 50% than we've become a totalitarianism state!

He's not saying that he wants to pay 75 percent. He's saying he wants your 75 percent. John Kerry hid his yacht from taxes. Tim Geitner evaded his taxes. Johnny Depp fleed the left's celestial France to avoid taxes. Will Smith balked at the idea of paying 70 percent taxes. The left loves the political football of paying more and we're all in this together but then they run when it's time to step up to the plate.

This is what the right has been saying. IF people weren't constantly looking out for their self interests then their plan would be great. BUT we are not going to ignore that reality. The butcher doesn't cut your meat b/c he doesn't want you to starve. He wants his fair share. Your fair share is not what you get, but what you earn.

I wonder how warren buffett would feel if the government wanted 75% of him.


:lmao:
 
Taxation is theft by force. You didn't pay? Send in the men in blue costumes to hall you off! Or maybe confiscate your belongings.

Governments are now way worse than the mafia ever was. They make you pay for everything and more exorbitantly than the mafia ever charged.
 
Why's it their duty? Because you said so? If you have more money than me then is it your duty to paypal me some duckets?

Everyone has to pay taxes. People who think they shouldn't pay any taxes shouldn't have the right to anything at all.

75 percent is a "fair share?" In principle, you should be working for yourself and your interests (interests that can include charitable giving). Why should you give 3 out of every 4 dollars to a faceless entity? At that point, you are no longer free and you are subject to the bondage of government.

75% is excessive and I wouldn't be paying that either. But my point was that everyone (assuming you are not on a low income) should be paying something.
 
Come on folks didn't you realize rich people created all that is from nothing, they are gawds to the right wingnut conservatives and libertarians. Place a rich person in a vacuum and soon the earth and heavens, highways and trains, technology and education, appear from nowhere, from nothing. It is such a magical thing to see that only the wingnuts appreciate the creation from nothing economy.

"Core morality tells us that people have a right to what they earn by their own efforts freely exercised. It is this part of core morality that Ayn Rand objectivists, libertarians, and other right wingers tap into when they insist that taxation is slavery... The trouble with such arguments is that nothing is earned, nothing is deserved. Even if there really were moral rights to the fruit of our freely exercised abilities and talents, these talents and abilities are never freely acquired or exercised. Just as your innate and acquired intelligence and abilities are unearned, so also are your ambitions, along with the discipline, the willingness to train, and other traits that have to be combined with your talents and abilities to produce anything worthwhile at all.... We don't earn our inborn (excuse the expression "God given") talents and abilities. We had nothing to do with whether these traits were conferred on us or not. Similarly, we didn't earn the acquired character traits needed to convert these talents into achievements. They, too, were the result of deterministic processes (genetic and cultural) that were set in motion long before we were born. That is what excludes the possibility that we earned or deserve them. We were just lucky to have the combination of hardwired abilities and learned ambitions that resulted in the world beating a path to our door....No one ever earned or deserved the traits that resulted in the inequalities we enjoy - greater income and wealth, better health and longer life, admiration and social distinction, comfort, and leisure. Therefore, no one, including us, has a moral right to those inequalities. Core morality may permit unearned inequalities, but it is certainly not going to require them without some further moral reason to do so." Alex Rosenberg

Conservatives, republicans and libertarians worship of the rich is such an odd phenomena. Today the right looks up to money as in the past people worshiped totems. And if you question how they got all this money you are labeled with some stock word that only has meaning in the world of money worship. No longer is America the 'can do' place, today it is the look to big money place and they will save us. Salvation now resides with the rich. Eighty years of propaganda has so modified the circuits in the minds of the right wingnuts, say something negative about the power of money and the winguts all scream in unison.

"On moral grounds, then, we could argue for a flat income tax of 90 percent to return that wealth to its real owners. In the United States, even a flat tax of 70 percent would support all governmental programs (about half the total tax) and allow payment, with the remainder, of a patrimony of about $8,000 per annum per inhabitant, or $25,000 for a family of three. This would generously leave with the original recipients of the income about three times what, according to my rough guess, they had earned."UBI and the Flat Tax
 
Everyone has to pay taxes. People who think they shouldn't pay any taxes shouldn't have the right to anything at all.

75 percent is a "fair share?" In principle, you should be working for yourself and your interests (interests that can include charitable giving). Why should you give 3 out of every 4 dollars to a faceless entity? At that point, you are no longer free and you are subject to the bondage of government.

75% is excessive and I wouldn't be paying that either. But my point was that everyone (assuming you are not on a low income) should be paying something.

Then the poor, who now not only pay no taxes but get a "refund" should also pay taxes.
 

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