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Rich, privileged actress wants ordinary people to pay more tax
« on: May 28, 2011, 09:58:10 PM »
H/T: Australian Climate Madness

There's something about rich, pampered celebrities presuming to lecture you on why you should be happy to part with greater amounts of your far more modest income so as to counter their contrived, imaginary bogeyman called global warming climate change, that simply never fails to be offensive and infuriating.

The latest airhead to so pontificate from her private jet whilst sipping glacial spring water transported from halfway around the world is Australian actress Cate Blanchett. She is now in an advertisement aiming to scare/shame her fellow Australians into supporting an as-yet-undefined tax on themselves for the purpose of setting up carbon valuation and trading schemes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eprah6RNab4

This site offers a good point by point refutation of the cliched nonsense:

http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/2011/05/rich-privileged-actress-wants-ordinary-people-to-pay-more-tax/
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Re: Rich, privileged actress wants ordinary people to pay more tax
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2011, 10:42:01 PM »
We're supposed to take tax advice from someone who can't spell Kate?
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Re: Rich, privileged actress wants ordinary people to pay more tax
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2011, 11:14:23 PM »
Quote from: rickl on May 28, 2011, 10:42:01 PM
We're supposed to take tax advice from someone who can't spell Kate?

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Re: Rich, privileged actress wants ordinary people to pay more tax
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2011, 06:07:41 AM »
Apparently Cate believes in the old Commie adage , "from those according to their ability to those according to their need" ... Which means that she should be quite able to handle a 90% tax bracket with no sweat ! That's pretty much the way the FDR Administration did it . The first $100,000 was taxed at something like 30-40% but anything over that was taxed at 90% . Which meant that if you worked your ass off and earned $1,000,000.00 the government let you keep $150,000.00 ! Gee ... Doesn't that sound fair ? ::saywhat::
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Re: Rich, privileged actress wants ordinary people to pay more tax
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2011, 10:18:24 AM »
Quote from: rickl on May 28, 2011, 10:42:01 PM
We're supposed to take tax advice from someone who can't spell Kate?

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Re: Rich, privileged actress wants ordinary people to pay more tax
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2011, 10:33:09 AM »
I thought she said she was going to "...diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel."

STFU.
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Re: Rich, privileged actress wants ordinary people to pay more tax
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2011, 11:06:31 AM »
I'm so glad the people in Hollyweird and their associates help me every chance they get. ::laserkill::
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Re: Rich, privileged actress wants ordinary people to pay more tax
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2011, 12:11:07 PM »
Quote from: AlanS on May 29, 2011, 11:06:31 AM
I'm so glad the people in Hollyweird and their associates help me every chance they get. ::laserkill::

Yessirreebob.  They help me identify which ones no longer need my support in the form of DVD/box office/royalties.
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Re: Rich, privileged actress wants ordinary people to pay more tax
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2011, 12:14:17 PM »
Quote from: Pandora on May 29, 2011, 12:11:07 PM
Quote from: AlanS on May 29, 2011, 11:06:31 AM
I'm so glad the people in Hollyweird and their associates help me every chance they get. ::laserkill::

Yessirreebob.  They help me identify which ones no longer need my support in the form of DVD/box office/royalties.

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Re: Rich, privileged actress wants ordinary people to pay more tax
« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2011, 12:37:06 PM »
Just when we thought this silliness had been finally debunked, some idiot from the land of make-believe stokes the fires on the BS train again...

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Re: Rich, privileged actress wants ordinary people to pay more tax
« Reply #10 on: May 29, 2011, 02:29:34 PM »
There was a good point made at the linked article, that there is this concerted effort to use the old imagery of smokestacks belching black, sooty, particulate smoke and have people associate "carbon emissions" with that.
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Re: Rich, privileged actress wants ordinary people to pay more tax
« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2011, 04:57:06 AM »
Quote from: Glock32 on May 29, 2011, 02:29:34 PM
There was a good point made at the linked article, that there is this concerted effort to use the old imagery of smokestacks belching black, sooty, particulate smoke and have people associate "carbon emissions" with that.

That stuff stopped in Pittsburgh and Akron almost forty years ago ... So did the steel and tire industries .
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Re: Rich, privileged actress wants ordinary people to pay more tax
« Reply #12 on: June 01, 2011, 07:00:19 AM »
Quote from: Sectionhand on May 30, 2011, 04:57:06 AM
Quote from: Glock32 on May 29, 2011, 02:29:34 PM
There was a good point made at the linked article, that there is this concerted effort to use the old imagery of smokestacks belching black, sooty, particulate smoke and have people associate "carbon emissions" with that.

That stuff stopped in Pittsburgh and Akron almost forty years ago ... So did the steel and tire industries .

All that belching black smoke comes out of China now, tell that twit to go there and bitch at them, see if the Politburo gives a rats ass!
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Re: Rich, privileged actress wants ordinary people to pay more tax
« Reply #13 on: June 01, 2011, 03:36:38 PM »
Quote from: Libertas on June 01, 2011, 07:00:19 AM
Quote from: Sectionhand on May 30, 2011, 04:57:06 AM
Quote from: Glock32 on May 29, 2011, 02:29:34 PM
There was a good point made at the linked article, that there is this concerted effort to use the old imagery of smokestacks belching black, sooty, particulate smoke and have people associate "carbon emissions" with that.

That stuff stopped in Pittsburgh and Akron almost forty years ago ... So did the steel and tire industries .

All that belching black smoke comes out of China now, tell that twit to go there and bitch at them, see if the Politburo gives a rats ass!
Tey wouldn't but they might send her to re-education ASAP
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Re: Rich, privileged actress wants ordinary people to pay more tax
« Reply #14 on: June 01, 2011, 04:23:07 PM »
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