Bill O’Reilly Threatens To Quit If Higher Taxes For Millionaires Are Enacted

Just an added benefit, I'd say. From Newshounds:

http://www.newshounds.us/2011/09/20/bill_oreilly_threatens_to_quit_if_higher_taxes_for_millionaires_are_enacted.php


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Guess what, America? Bill O’Reilly plans to take his marbles and go home if we don’t play by his rules. Apparently, looking out for the folks has its price and it’s a steep one. Never mind that a large majority of Americans (i.e. “the folks”) want tax increases on the wealthy. If O’Reilly doesn’t get his way, he’s going to quit his job and stop making investments. Way to show your love for your country, O’Reilly!

O’Reilly said in his Talking Points segment that opens each show that he wants the federal government to get more money, but just not from him. “If you tax achievement, some of the achievers are going to pack it in,” he said, suggesting the money should come from people who are poorer - an idea he has previously floated. “My corporations employ scores of people. They depend on me to do what I do so they can make a nice salary. If Barack Obama begins taxing me more than 50%, which is very possible, I don’t know how much longer I’m going to do this. I like my job but there comes a point when taxation becomes oppressive. Is the country really entitled to half a person’s income?”

In fact, PolitiFact reports that during the Eisenhower administration, the top tax rate was about 90% for workers earning the equivalent of $1.6 million for an individual and $3.2 million for a couple. Someone making the 1954 equivalent of $373,650 in today's money would have paid a tax rate of 72 percent back then. I’m guessing O’Reilly is a lot closer to earnings of $1.6 million than $373,650.

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for the price of one!

Sounds like a deal.

What ever happened with that?

Don

...How about drafting one for Bill?

:evilgrin:

the few old WMDs they did find were justification for the invasion and also for him not quitting. (Didn't they find a few old stashes of WMD that were either already known about or so degraded due to age as to be unusable?)

He's threatening his opponents by saying that if they get what they want, he'll stop haranguing them. If this some kind of weird triple reverse psychology?

By the way Bill. Nobody is talking about taking half of you or anyone else's income. Paranoid much?

...which he won't...FOX should fire him. Wouldn't want his bullshit damaging FOX's "integrity", would they?

:rofl:

"Ronald Reagan was never afraid to raise taxes," historian Douglas Brinkley, who edited Reagan's diaries, told NPR. "He knew that it was necessary at times. And so there's a false mythology out there about Reagan as this conservative president who came in and just cut taxes and trimmed federal spending in a dramatic way. It didn't happen that way. It's false."

It's important to note that Reagan's tax increases did not wipe out the effects of that initial tax cut. But they did eat up about half of it. And as Peter Beinart points out, the 1983 payroll tax hike went to pay for Social Security and Medicare. ("Reagan raised taxes to pay for government-run health care," Beinart writes.) Reagan also raised the gas tax and signed the largest corporate tax increase in history, an act Joshua Green writes would be "utterly unimaginable for any conservative to support today."

Hey, quite aside from being a good idea on its own, this is an excellent reason for the tax hikes to be enacted.

n/t

I truly despise that piece of shite.

real quick.

As if a higher rate has EVER stopped anyone from trying to become (or remain) a millionaire?!?!?!?! Of course not. Stop talking shit, Bill.

Doesn't our income tax rates only increase on the money earned above each level? So like only the money above $250K is taxed at the rate for $250K and above.

So potentially they could work until they reach the amount where the government would take the percentage people here are asking for and then just call it a year. People bring up the old 90% top bracket. Was said, including by Raygun, that hollywood actors used to pass on making more than a couple movies in the same year because of the 90% tax that would fall on that income. When you're rich you can afford to do it.

Bullshit.


And even if it wasn't bullshit, so what? Someone else would step in and fill the void.

Let them go Gault. Someone else will do their job.

If you have money, it's invested. In cash, bonds, stocks, gold, beanie babies, motorcycles, whatever. You cannot "not invest". You can only decide how to invest.

If Bill O should quit, how oh how will we find enough crap to fill that time slot? Pleeeeeze, Bill, don't leave us.

Other than filling simple minds with pure bull shit?

he created a whole lot of hot air!!:woohoo:

Seriously have you ever seen him talk with a straight face to the camera and ever tell the truth?

"Fuck it, we'll do it live."

Well, other than that time, I mean.

:rofl:

RAISE THOSE TAXES!!!!

How will we ever function as a society without Bill's unique talents and genius?

I can't think of a better reason to raise taxes than this.

Just do it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2YDq6FkVE&list=FL0iNVrnYCGkTP4duqdeCiRA&index=73

And the background info: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5tVxi6iCXM

...NOT!

Sure, Bill. Let's see, $40 million vs. $38 million vs. 0. Somehow, I doubt 0 will win out. O'Reilly is far too greedy and egocentric to quit over whatever difference a higher tax percentage is. It's a pittance to him. Quitting, on the other hand, guarantees a big donut hole. I wonder what his excuse will be when he doesn't pack it in. Will it be his patriotic duty to not quit? Will God have come to him in a revelation? Whatever it is, you can be sure, Bill-O will still be raking in big bucks.

wonderful news

and then bah bah O'Leilly....

Oh please, Congress. Pass the bill. Right f*ing now!

:patriot:

:rofl:

If you take your Faux News faux-patriotism one half-step further, Bill, and expatriate yourself and your household to some offshore place where you can evade paying US taxes, pick a low-lying tropical island where the highest elevation is no more than 20 to 30 feet above sea level, so you can demonstrate your disbelief in global warming.

:evilgrin:

:rofl:

win-win :beer:

Lou

Which of course is absurd in today's political climate. And of course his lemming followers will actually think that that is what is proposed.

Please, Billo. Do the country a favor and quit.

And while we're at it, nationalize the banks and energy sector and get Bill a passport and visa to Devil's Island.

job and who could easily replace him.

What an unmitigated a-hole.

lol! So tax HIS ass 50% then. I don't see the bad. BO gone, his creepy sheeple rendered helpless with grief, money in the coffers.


Unfortunately he won't quit. He needs/wants to get richer.

I won't hold my breath.

I hope it happens! We can use one less bloviating, rightwing propagandist on the MSM.

He was making 9 million a year in 2006 just from Fox alone...

Add to that all the book sales, the radio show when he had it, speaking engagements...

more incentive to tax the rich until they bleed green.

:rofl:

I've always thought of him as a grossly overpaid, bloated bloviator ... never as an achiever.

A MENDACIOUS, sex-addicted, grossly overpaid, bloated bloviator.

for useless blowhards?

don' let the door hit ya

See, If we do things that are good for the country, the effect will snowball.

Monday night (9/19/11), Bill O'Reilly threatened to quit working and investing if higher taxes on the wealthy go up. That got quite a bit of notice - as of this writing my post has gotten more than 163,000 page views - plus I've seen a lot of comments and tweets that were not exactly broken up at the prospect. Tuesday night (9/20/11), O'Reilly continued harping on the tax issue, but somehow, he didn't mention a word about quitting.

Once again, O'Reilly's Talking Points commentary that opens each show was devoted to the prospect of higher taxes for the wealthy. Once again, O'Reilly ignored the fact that a large majority of "the folks" (you know, the ones O'Reilly always claims to be looking out for) are in favor of tax hikes for the wealthy as he complained, "The rich are already taxed enough."

But unlike the night before, he didn't say a word about quitting.

http://www.newshounds.us/2011/09/21/bill_oreilly_drops_his_threat_of_quitting_if_his_taxes_go_up.php#more

Thanks for the thread, JaneQPublic.:party:

But it is sadly amusing and out right pitiful how he thinks his actions affect everything.... except of course the murder of abortion doctors.

> “My corporations employ scores of people."

He is talking about the huge legal staff he keeps around to settle sexual harassment cases and work on his pending divorce.

:nopity:

No one likes a tease.

This guy is so full of shit that he squeaches when he walks.

But on the off chance he is telling the truth I will support the Dems even more.

Oh sure, I'll cry when you leave. Absolutely, see the tears in my eyes? They're real, honest. BUH BYE. AM-SCRAY already.

Also, how many private investigators will he have to downsize in the investigation of Maureen's cop boyfriend?

How will we live without FOX's "The Falafel Factor"???

Unfortunately.

That is outrageous. Murdoch is such a putz.

Fucking Christ, just GO already. Go ahead and take you ball, hell take MINE too, just fucking leave. And take your asshole friends with you too.

Yeah, OReilly you will end up just like a lot of the high paid athletes and entertainers do when they are no longer the big thing and making the big bucks. These people get used to the high income lifestyle and figure it will always be there. Of course, they forget about the fact that once that high level of income stops what seemed so easy to maintain all of a sudden becomes a huge financial burden. They quickly become overextended and their little financial house of cards collapses leaving them no better than the rest of us worker bees. Good luck with that O'Reilly!