Comments on: Young Jeezy on Obama’s tax plan: “I’ve got my 50% ready”

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[...] – except money! Money is a plaything. It explains why filthy rich performing artists – like this guy – always express fondness for more taxes, why liberals constantly bluster about the evilness of the [...]

By: hawkdriver

hawkdriver — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:23:42 +0000

Pay mine too.

By: Army Brat

Army Brat — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:21:01 +0000

When ya don’t work for your money, it’s easy to give it up.

By: Grafted

Grafted — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:16:21 +0000

1) You can do without 50% of your money

and

2) No you don’t

By: FireBlogger

FireBlogger — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:37:14 +0000

Lil Wheezy don’t be understandin, mo like 74.89% and soon enough.

By: Kevin M

Kevin M — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:59:56 +0000

His head is very shiny.

By: RD

RD — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:54:41 +0000

And his recent comments have all but tagged him as “Young Jizya.” RD on January 24, 2009 at 3:50 AM
Brilliant! Use it, people. It will drive the kids nuts, and it will provide a “teaching moment” when they ask what Jizya is. Disturb the Universe on January 24, 2009 at 11:42 AM

Tks for the thumbs-up DtU! (Of course, with our luck, he'll change his stage name to "Fiddy PuhCent" before all this is over...)

By: MishMashZone

MishMashZone — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:27:30 +0000

Poll Numbers Are Down For Obama…

Before Obama took office, his poll numbers for the transition was 83%. But for his first three full days in office, they are in the average range for a new President, 68%.
But, this is THE ONE we are talking about. 68% is LOW.
Now that he’s …

By: keep the change

keep the change — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:58:19 +0000

With the price of gold, he could pay his 50% just in gold jewelery.

By: Akzed

Akzed — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:36:04 +0000

Here's a young black Christian conservative hoping that Hussein is successful - in changing his mind. Excellent.

By: Freddy

Freddy — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:12:42 +0000

It seems that what the entertainers do not understand is what it takes to make money outside of the entertainment business. Entertainment people are actually quite isolated from business people in what it takes to run a business. While some may go from project to project and use the title of ‘businessman’, they do not actually need to concern themselves with things like managing a payroll or an inventory. They think, well I just hire an accounting firm and that is all there is. They have little to no understand of what it would take to setup and run a company to make washing machines or any sort of manufactured product. Managing a department store would be beyond most all of them.

This is why watching the ‘celebrities’ and many of the ‘talking political heads’ on TV can get really silly. As entertainers, they just do not get it.

When it turns out the very politicians making decisions regarding business have no understanding, it is not as amusing.

By: IlikedAUH2O

IlikedAUH2O — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:18:11 +0000

By rumor, the Kennedy family ran half a billion or so through Fiji with $10,000 or so in taxes. I was told that the Kennedy ’skip the inheritance tax’ dodge was only an urban legend.

By: redfoxbluestate

redfoxbluestate — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:42:39 +0000

There’s nothing preventing any of these inane, vapid celebidiots from cutting a bigger check to Uncle Sam.

Leave the rest of us alone and keep your paws off our wallets!

By: golfer1

golfer1 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:19:16 +0000

Reminds me of when Huckabee came up with that “tax me more” fund, where folks could voluntarily tax themselves and send it to the fund. He was tire of hearing people say that they were not taxed enough. It didn’t generate much money. Subsequent “tax me more” provisions in other states have met with the same limited “success”.

You want to pay your 50%? Cough it up, slick.

By: jukin

jukin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:17:30 +0000

Liberals are all for paying taxes until they have to write the check.

Remind me how much inheritance tax does a Kennedy pay?

By: Callie C.

Callie C. — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:04:59 +0000

Have you guys seen Cribs on MTV (I know I shouldn’t admit that I’ve watched that before) where rappers, athletes, etc. try to out do each other by having the biggest most expensive homes, cars, jewelry and clothes. The rap industry is all about how much stuff one can amass. I highly doubt he’ll pay 50% of his income to the government. I’m sure he’ll hire the best accountant to get away with paying the least taxes possible. Paying taxes is very pedestrian — only the little people do that, not rich famous rappers.

By: IlikedAUH2O

IlikedAUH2O — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:59:04 +0000

An agent once told me that even DEAD stars like publicity. If it makes them seem cool, all the better!

This is B. S. on the part of the entertainers. And really strange on the part of The One and His sidekick who couldn’t give 5% of their own money to charity let alone extra contributions to the IRS.

By: marklmail

marklmail — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:44:42 +0000

Meet the newest sensation. The white rapper who has to give his money to the “poor”. FITTY PERCENT!!!

By: Disturb the Universe

Disturb the Universe — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:42:51 +0000

And his recent comments have all but tagged him as “Young Jizya.” RD on January 24, 2009 at 3:50 AM

Brilliant! Use it, people. It will drive the kids nuts, and it will provide a "teaching moment" when they ask what Jizya is.

By: marklmail

marklmail — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:37:07 +0000

Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Schumer, Biden – WRITE A F*CKING CHECK!

By: Jamson64

Jamson64 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:14:42 +0000

What keeps anybody from sending their money to the government? Have at it.

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:47:26 +0000

We’re screwed no matter how you look at it. It’s mob rule now and racist ignoramuses like Jeezy rule the day. God help us all.

By: mankai

mankai — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:34:13 +0000

When Reagan entered office, wasn’t the top bracket 70%?

mankai on January 23, 2009 at 8:40 PM

Yep and it was 91% when Kennedy took office. No, that is not a typo.

angryed on January 24, 2009 at 9:09 AM

Yeah, Kennedy ran as a tax-cutter. The top bracket was cut to 70%. I believe that the progressive nature of the tax structure was different than it was by 1980. I don’t think the brackets reflected the inflation of the 70s.

The expansion of the 60s was squandered on the War on Poverty (a war we lost in the most undignified manner… yet we’re still trying to fight it using the same strategy).

By: Outlander

Outlander — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:30:17 +0000

What I think you’re seeing is the beginning of a movement to try and change attitudes about reimposing a 50-60% top marginal rate. (Under Carter, the top marginal rate was 70%, albeit with significantly more deductions available that probably reduced the effective tax rate to more like 50%.) This drumbeat has been building for a few years, with guys like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett saying “I have no problem paying way higher taxes.” Now you’re getting “cool people” saying the same thing.

These are extremely scary times we live in. I fear for this country every day. New Deal I kept the Republicans out of Congress for 60 years – largely by making retirees and union members dependent on the government. New Deal II will make everyone dependent on government for their entire retirement (plans are afoot to nationalize 401(k) plans), health care, and so on. Republicans will be shut out of power forever, and our philosophies will be relegated to the dust bin of history — along with, eventually, our civilization.

By: toliver

toliver — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:13:26 +0000

When Reagan entered office, wasn’t the top bracket 70%?

mankai on January 23, 2009 at 8:40 PM

Yes, but there were “loopholes” and “write-offs” that effectively cut that rate significantly.