Stephen King Rant

[BDBoop]

Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&

Cut a check and shut up, they said.

If you want to pay more, pay more, they said.

Tired of hearing about it, they said.

Tough shit for you guys, because I’m not tired of talking about it. I’ve known rich people, and why not, since I’m one of them? The majority would rather douse their dicks with lighter fluid, strike a match, and dance around singing “Disco Inferno” than pay one more cent in taxes to Uncle Sugar. It’s true that some rich folks put at least some of their tax savings into charitable contributions. My wife and I give away roughly $4 million a year to libraries, local fire departments that need updated lifesaving equipment (Jaws of Life tools are always a popular request), schools, and a scattering of organizations that underwrite the arts. Warren Buffett does the same; so does Bill Gates; so does Steven Spielberg; so do the Koch brothers; so did the late Steve Jobs. All fine as far as it goes, but it doesn’t go far enough.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility—America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. Charity from the rich can’t fix global warming or lower the price of gasoline by one single red penny. That kind of salvation does not come from Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Ballmer saying, “OK, I’ll write a $2 million bonus check to the IRS.” That annoying responsibility stuff comes from three words that are anathema to the Tea Partiers: United American citizenry.

I agree. Of course. Everybody knows that's why people bring links and share stories, but then if you don't say anything there will be an attack. So. I'm saying something.

 

[Big Fitz]

This is the second 'author saying something stupid' thread you've started. It's also good to note that Stephen King is showing why the limousine liberals are bloody hypocrites with their money.

 

[Vidi]

more from the Stephen King editorial in the original post

I guess some of this mad right-wing love comes from the idea that in America, anyone can become a Rich Guy if he just works hard and saves his pennies. Mitt Romney has said, in effect, “I’m rich and I don’t apologize for it.” Nobody wants you to, Mitt. What some of us want—those who aren’t blinded by a lot of bullshit persiflage thrown up to mask the idea that rich folks want to keep their damn money—is for you to acknowledge that you couldn’t have made it in America without America. That you were fortunate enough to be born in a country where upward mobility is possible (a subject upon which Barack Obama can speak with the authority of experience), but where the channels making such upward mobility possible are being increasingly clogged. That it’s not fair to ask the middle class to assume a disproportionate amount of the tax burden. Not fair? It’s un-fucking-American is what it is. I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share. That our civics classes never taught us that being American means that—sorry, kiddies—you’re on your own. That those who have received much must be obligated to pay—not to give, not to “cut a check and shut up,” in Governor Christie’s words, but to pay—in the same proportion. That’s called stepping up and not whining about it. That’s called patriotism, a word the Tea Partiers love to throw around as long as it doesn’t cost their beloved rich folks any money.

 

[whitehall]

King hasn't been right ever since he got hit by that van.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&

Cut a check and shut up, they said.

If you want to pay more, pay more, they said.

Tired of hearing about it, they said.

Tough shit for you guys, because I’m not tired of talking about it. I’ve known rich people, and why not, since I’m one of them? The majority would rather douse their dicks with lighter fluid, strike a match, and dance around singing “Disco Inferno” than pay one more cent in taxes to Uncle Sugar. It’s true that some rich folks put at least some of their tax savings into charitable contributions. My wife and I give away roughly $4 million a year to libraries, local fire departments that need updated lifesaving equipment (Jaws of Life tools are always a popular request), schools, and a scattering of organizations that underwrite the arts. Warren Buffett does the same; so does Bill Gates; so does Steven Spielberg; so do the Koch brothers; so did the late Steve Jobs. All fine as far as it goes, but it doesn’t go far enough.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility—America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. Charity from the rich can’t fix global warming or lower the price of gasoline by one single red penny. That kind of salvation does not come from Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Ballmer saying, “OK, I’ll write a $2 million bonus check to the IRS.” That annoying responsibility stuff comes from three words that are anathema to the Tea Partiers: United American citizenry.

I agree. Of course. Everybody knows that's why people bring links and share stories, but then if you don't say anything there will be an attack. So. I'm saying something.

Stephen King, living proof it doesn't take brains to get rich.

 

[BDBoop]

Rofl! And if I didn't know you were a troll before? I do now. Unfreakinbelievable.

 

[Interpol]

Stephen King is right on.

The Republican party of today continues to assume the moral high ground on selfishness.

 

[Vidi]

Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&

Cut a check and shut up, they said.

If you want to pay more, pay more, they said.

Tired of hearing about it, they said.

Tough shit for you guys, because I’m not tired of talking about it. I’ve known rich people, and why not, since I’m one of them? The majority would rather douse their dicks with lighter fluid, strike a match, and dance around singing “Disco Inferno” than pay one more cent in taxes to Uncle Sugar. It’s true that some rich folks put at least some of their tax savings into charitable contributions. My wife and I give away roughly $4 million a year to libraries, local fire departments that need updated lifesaving equipment (Jaws of Life tools are always a popular request), schools, and a scattering of organizations that underwrite the arts. Warren Buffett does the same; so does Bill Gates; so does Steven Spielberg; so do the Koch brothers; so did the late Steve Jobs. All fine as far as it goes, but it doesn’t go far enough.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility—America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. Charity from the rich can’t fix global warming or lower the price of gasoline by one single red penny. That kind of salvation does not come from Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Ballmer saying, “OK, I’ll write a $2 million bonus check to the IRS.” That annoying responsibility stuff comes from three words that are anathema to the Tea Partiers: United American citizenry.

I agree. Of course. Everybody knows that's why people bring links and share stories, but then if you don't say anything there will be an attack. So. I'm saying something.

Stephen King, living proof it doesn't take brains to get rich.

Riiiiiight...49 novels under his belt, hes received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy Society Awards, his novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette nominee, and in 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his whole career, such as the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2004), the Canadian Booksellers Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America (2007).


But he's a moron.

 

[Si modo]

Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&

I agree. Of course. Everybody knows that's why people bring links and share stories, but then if you don't say anything there will be an attack. So. I'm saying something.

Stephen King, living proof it doesn't take brains to get rich.

Riiiiiight...49 novels under his belt, hes received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy Society Awards, his novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette nominee, and in 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his whole career, such as the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2004), the Canadian Booksellers Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America (2007).


But he's a moron.

Of course he is not a moron. He is an expert in creative writing, horror novel writing, novel promotion, etc.

He certainly is no expert in tax policy, rather he is a moron in it.

It's yet another silly argument from authority, thus means close to nothing, except what a horror writer believes about his taxes.

Maybe next we'll hear what a chef thinks, too.

 

[Artevelde]

Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&

I agree. Of course. Everybody knows that's why people bring links and share stories, but then if you don't say anything there will be an attack. So. I'm saying something.

Stephen King, living proof it doesn't take brains to get rich.

Riiiiiight...49 novels under his belt, hes received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy Society Awards, his novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette nominee, and in 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his whole career, such as the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2004), the Canadian Booksellers Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America (2007).


But he's a moron.

History is full of famous writers who turned out to be complete morons when it turned to politics or economics.

 

[old navy]

I stopped reading him years ago.

 

[Big Fitz]

Stephen King is right on.

The Republican party of today continues to assume the moral high ground on selfishness.

Selfishness while preaching altruism of others against their will is worse than selfishness alone.

 

[Barb]

Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&

Cut a check and shut up, they said.

If you want to pay more, pay more, they said.

Tired of hearing about it, they said.

Tough shit for you guys, because I’m not tired of talking about it. I’ve known rich people, and why not, since I’m one of them? The majority would rather douse their dicks with lighter fluid, strike a match, and dance around singing “Disco Inferno” than pay one more cent in taxes to Uncle Sugar. It’s true that some rich folks put at least some of their tax savings into charitable contributions. My wife and I give away roughly $4 million a year to libraries, local fire departments that need updated lifesaving equipment (Jaws of Life tools are always a popular request), schools, and a scattering of organizations that underwrite the arts. Warren Buffett does the same; so does Bill Gates; so does Steven Spielberg; so do the Koch brothers; so did the late Steve Jobs. All fine as far as it goes, but it doesn’t go far enough.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility—America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. Charity from the rich can’t fix global warming or lower the price of gasoline by one single red penny. That kind of salvation does not come from Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Ballmer saying, “OK, I’ll write a $2 million bonus check to the IRS.” That annoying responsibility stuff comes from three words that are anathema to the Tea Partiers: United American citizenry.

I agree. Of course. Everybody knows that's why people bring links and share stories, but then if you don't say anything there will be an attack. So. I'm saying something.

This is an excellent example of what the democrats need-people who know how to put policy in human terms- and this is why the right hates it when professional writers help them do so.

All they have is Luntz, who helps them use weasel words to shine turds.

 

[Stephanie]

Stephen King is right on.

The Republican party of today continues to assume the moral high ground on selfishness.

the greedy one is Stephen King for NOT giving all his MILLIONS he has to the Federal Government he thinks it's such a great idea they raise people taxes.
Instead he is just ANOTHER raving wealthy HYPROCITE

of course if you've read any of his books the man is slightly warped..

 

[Vidi]

Stephen King is right on.

The Republican party of today continues to assume the moral high ground on selfishness.

Selfishness while preaching altruism of others against their will is worse than selfishness alone.

Says the thieves

 

[Vidi]

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Stephen King is right on.

The Republican party of today continues to assume the moral high ground on selfishness.

the greedy one is Stephen King for NOT giving all his MILLIONS he has to the Federal Government he thinks it's such a great idea they raise people taxes.
Instead he is just ANOTHER raving wealthy HYPROCITE

of course if you've read any of his books the man is slightly warped..

Stupid dodge argument which was blasted by the linked article.

Nice fallback to the straw man, dumbass.

 

[Katzndogz]

Stephen King hasn't been the same since his brains were plastered all over the pavement.

 

[eflatminor]

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility—America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts

Guess what Mr King, you can't get it by force either. Those "war" debts, which include debt from a lot more than just wars, are rapidly approaching $150,000 owed from each an every taxpayer. We cannot continue our current spending levels and tax our way out of this one. No way in hell, not even with a 99% marginal tax rate. We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem.

Then there's the fact that the federal government has no authority (or at least they're not supposed to have any authority) over healthcare, education, or infrastructure repair. Unless of course I missed that among the enumerated powers?

Lastly Mr King, you have no understanding of the history of central planning. Hint: It never ends well. Read something from a real economist: Hayek, Mises, Friedman, etc. If you can't comprehend it all, I understand, but if you can, there is no way you'll continue to spout this socialistic bullshit.

 

[BDBoop]

Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&

I agree. Of course. Everybody knows that's why people bring links and share stories, but then if you don't say anything there will be an attack. So. I'm saying something.

Stephen King, living proof it doesn't take brains to get rich.

Riiiiiight...49 novels under his belt, hes received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy Society Awards, his novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette nominee, and in 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his whole career, such as the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2004), the Canadian Booksellers Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America (2007).


But he's a moron.

I know. I went to bed wondering 1) wtf was Quantum smoking, and 2) why wasn't he sharing.

 

[BDBoop]

Stephen King, living proof it doesn't take brains to get rich.

Riiiiiight...49 novels under his belt, hes received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy Society Awards, his novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette nominee, and in 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his whole career, such as the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2004), the Canadian Booksellers Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America (2007).


But he's a moron.

Of course he is not a moron. He is an expert in creative writing, horror novel writing, novel promotion, etc.

He certainly is no expert in tax policy, rather he is a moron in it.

It's yet another silly argument from authority, thus means close to nothing, except what a horror writer believes about his taxes.

Maybe next we'll hear what a chef thinks, too.

Only if said chef has a way with words.