From 2011
Michael Moore is the multimillionaire producer of anti-free market movies. He says there is plenty of money to run the U.S. government. Just tax the rich.
Mr. Moore would do well to read the report by Iowahawk on what this government is costing us, and how long the money would fund the government if it taxed the rich, and only the rich. Here is his summary on how to run the government on stolen wealth.
12:01 AM, January 1
Let’s start the year out right by going after some evil corporations and their obscene profits. And who is more evil than those twin spawns of Lucifer himself, Exxon Mobil and Walmart? Together these two largest American industrial behemoths raked in, between them, $34 billion in 2010 global profits. Let’s teach ’em both a lesson and confiscate it for the public good. This will get us through…
9:52 AM January 4
Okay, maybe I underestimated our take. But we shouldn’t let Exxon and Walmart distract us from all those other corporate profiteers out there worth shaking down. In fact, why don’t we grab every cent of 2010 profit made by the other 498 members of the Fortune 500? That will net us another, let’s see, $357 billion! Enough to get us to…
2:00 AM February 9
So we’re running out of corporate cash, but look – it’s Super Bowl time! As we all know, the game has become a crass disgusting festival of commercialism. So let’s take all the TV ad money spent on stupid Super Bowl ads, and apply that to government needs. That would be $250 million, enough to fund us for, let’s see… 36 minutes. The half time show, at least. But why stop there? Let’s take every cent of ad money spent on all 45 Super Bowls, a cool $5 billion, which would cover us until…
2:00 PM February 9
Speaking of sports, why should the players be immune to our pressing public needs? Lord knows professional athletes make obscene salaries for playing a dumb game. So let’s take the combined salaries of all players in the NFL, Major League Baseball, the NBA, and the NHL. Hey, they’ve got endorsement deals, they’ll hardly miss it. Throw in the total winnings of everybody on the PGA tour and NASCAR, and we get $9.4 billion, enough to get us through until…
1:00 PM February 10. . . .
You get the idea. You can read the rest of the year by clicking the link, below.
Bill Whittle took this article and turned it into one of his memorable videos. I don’t know of anyone who gets across the Tea Party’s outlook better than Whittle. For the video, click here.
Continue reading on iowahawk.typepad.com.
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Published on December 12, 2011. The original is here.
Moore admitted in October 2011 that he was in the top 1%.
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