“The Government has taken tax up to 50 per cent, and if it goes to 51 I will be back in America, We’ve got 3.5 million layabouts on benefits, and I’m 76, getting up at 6am to go to work to keep them.”
Although, taking one’s wealth from Tony Blair’s Britain to Big Owe’s America is like an egg leaning out over the edge of the pan, threatening to jump.
More…“it’s always heartening to see a successful man from a humble background being badmouthed by a Stalin groupie from a privileged background. “
I think we should turn commies and their apologists into biodiesel to power giant SUV’s.
Not to be green, just to be rid of them in an ironic way.
if the top incomes have to pay 50% then it’s only fair that the bottom and middle also pay 50%. better still have a revolution and wipe out the idiots who think others should pay for their well being.
From the Champage socialist Milne.
“Despite the cruelties of the Stalin terror, there was no Soviet Treblinka or Sobibor, no extermination camps built to murder millions.”
I’ll take “A Day In The Life Of Ivan Desonovitch” for a Euro please Alex.
warwick, how about soylent green and feed it to the pigs.
old white guy
“how about soylent green and feed it to the pigs.”
What and poison the food supply? First mad cow, now you want demented pig?
Commies are only good to burn or burry. They are good for nothing else.
I’ve often wondered if limousine socialists are so rich and so secure in their position that they simply can’t conceive of life without either? What does Milne expect is going to happen? Everyone else is going to give it all up except him?
Mr. Trebek: “This camp, located between the Arctic Ocean and the Bering Sea, had a gold mine – and was also where the purged ‘Soviet Von Braun’ was a slave laborer.”
“What is Kolyma?”
Trebek: “One Euro for you.”
GHUA
That’s precisely what they think. They hate everyone with money and power precisely because they feel entitled to all of it. The believe they alone should have the power to dish out favours and money and that anyone else who has anything at all should be crushed.
These are people who were raised privileged. There are no rich socialists who are self-made although there are many self-made founders of charities. See, a socialist wants to spend YOUR money on their pet causes and someone who makes their own will spend their own. Commies are children who never grew up. They’re petulant, immature, and prone to tantrums.
Really though, the social pathologies of marxism are that they wanted to keep the feudal system but substitute themselves as the lords bossing and controlling the serfs.
Mr. Caine would be retired had he worked in any other field. The layabouts in Great Britain expect a seventy-six year old man to support them? How cold.
Amazing. Milne actually believes the Soviets DIDN’T exterminate millions of their own people and others. Wow.
They’ll all just do what Bono does, live the good life but pay their taxes in some convenient low-tax haven.
Of course, going to work as a movie star would always be a plus, but still, you can’t argue with Sir Michael (who doesn’t already live in the States, BTW?)
So now where is Mark Bourrie, er, The Virgin Mary, er, WhinyDoug on this one?
We all know…..The Golden Rule…means WE get to play with YOUR gold!
Of course, going to work as a movie star would always be a plus, but still, you can’t argue with Sir Michael (who doesn’t already live in the States, BTW?)
NEVER click “Post” twice. It always goes through in the end.
Black Mamba, Michael Caine lived in the US -Hollywood, natch- for about 30 years, returning to England in the 90’s.
At that time, Caine made some remarks about missing home. Apparently now, he’s starting to miss his money that the Labour Govt is stealing from him.
Return for the nostalgia. Leave for the taxes. Leave for the weather. Leave for the crime. Leave for the lobotomized, squalid pop-culture and the pointlessly guilt-ridden class-obsessivness. Leave for that sense that the whole damn island is about to sink into the North Alantic, and nobody at all will be any worse off. Leave for the TV.
(The food gets a bad rap. The national cuisine is now Indian, which is very nice.)
If taxing cigarettes is supposed to limit smoking and taxing gasoline suposed to limit consumption, shouldn’t taxing income limit working?
ScottInRMH,
be careful if you make too much sense you’ll be labelled for a re-education camp haha
but he’s right….i make a conscious effort to stay in a particular tax bracket…
Here’s just one of the layabouts Caine’s supporting. Oh, and her triplets:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1174210/30-stone-mother-feeds-baby-triplets-junk-food-diet–admits-McDonalds-just-months.html
No less a wight than Andrew Lloyd Webber had an op-ed almost identical to this the other day.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1173545/ANDREW-LLOYD-WEBBER-The-thing-country-needs-pirate-raid-wealthy-dont-lynch-Im-rich-b—d.html
Just goes to show, being a artiste doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t count when it comes to your own money.
Like an article I read at PJ media last night,
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/how-i-ended-up-broke-at-55/2/
She’s blaming capitalism, but really it’s her bad financial decisions IMHO.
Doug they’re still playing with themselves on the backteria panic thread, you know, mention “swine” and suddenly the experts of MSM come along…
He should not come to Ontario for any tax relief, it’s at least 40% of your income over $124,000. (Yup, this is where Canada thinks you are rich). Something to reflect on this tax filing deadline day…
Oh, and this does not count every other tax your pay as you go.
I’ve been pissed way longer than Michael Caine.
The only democracy socialism brings about is the spread of suffering to everyone.
Socialists do not benefit from improving the lot of the population. On the contrary, a healthy, happy and prosperous population would have no use and no need for socialist government intervention.
Socialists are like maggots, they feed on sores. They thrive on human disgrace. They need a permanent supply of hurting victims of “injustice”, a permanent supply of “underprivileged”, an inexhaustible supply of “hungry and needy children”. Otherwise, what’s their purpose in life?
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/04/dont-let-socialists-steal-america-from.html#readfurther
Hate to burst your collective, delusional, right-wingnut bubble, but your Dear Leader Steve is completely into punitive taxation and redistribution. The ranks of Conservative supporters are rife with parasitic moochers. The small dead minded have no moral basis on which to lecture anybody about anything.
You know…pot…kettle…glass houses and all that.
I’m confused. How can BO save the planet and Detroit at the same time? Isn’t Detroit part of the problem, or is it ony the high fuel economy forign cars that are the problem?
Another baiting lefty troll with nothing intelligent to say,sigh…
But Detroit has their Unions and the $200 million in Ogabe campaign contributions. Obviously the union jobs MUST be saved!
This is why I am 100% behind Robert Heinlein and Jerry Pournelle when it comes to earning the right to vote via civic duty (i.e. putting in some years in the military or some civil socially-useful work like in a geriatric hospital or planting trees, etc). Would weed out the lazy, entitlement-minded scuzz who want to spend their lives sucking off those who actually put something into society. And teach work ethic, responsibility and other skills way more useful than the pap taught in schools these days. That way, the monkeys would no longer be able to vote themselves unrestricted access to the bananas. Universal sufferage without earning the right to full participation as a citizen has always been a big mistake – it enabled socialism.
Speaking of Mr. Galt…
After several years of intentions to read “Atlas Shrugged,” I recently bought a copy of the Cliff’s Notes for said novel.
The 1200 page novel would not fit into my life-style right now, with the “Right-Wing Extremism” activities and all. So, the Cliff’s Notes version worked fine to understand the gist.
Let me tell you
How it will be.
There’s one for you,
Nineteen for me,
‘Cause I’m the taxman.
Yeah, I’m the taxman.
Should five percent
Appear too small,
Be thankful I don’t
Take it all.
‘Cause I’m the taxman.
Yeah, I’m the taxman.
If you drive a car,
I’ll tax the street.
If you take the bus,
I’ll tax your seat.
If you get too cold,
I’ll tax the heat.
If you take a walk,
I’ll tax your feet.
Taxman!
‘Cause I’m the taxman.
Yeah, I’m the taxman.
Don’t ask me what I want it for,
(Uh-uh, Mr. Wilson.)
If you don’t want to pay some more.
(Uh-uh, Mr. Heath.)
‘Cause I’m the taxman.
Yeah, I’m the taxman.
And my advice to
Those who die.
(Taxman!)
Declare the pennies
On your eyes.
(Taxman!)
‘Cause I’m the taxman.
Yeah, I’m the taxman,
And you’re working for no one but me.
Interesting commentary. Michael Caine is a terrific actor but one suspects when they’re British, that behind the bluster they’re all limpwristed Marxists. If Caine means what he says, we need him here. The battle’s over in the UK while it’s just getting under way here.
John Rogers sums up Rand:
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
Two types read Rand: Teenagers justifying their narcissism, and stupid people trying to feel smart.