Micheal Moore in Wisconsin: "America is not broke"

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Micheal Moore gives speech in Wisconsin - "America is not broke".

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If only he were right.

Did you bother to listen to the speech?  The money still exists, its just in the hands of your betters.

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Well, straight from the rumor mill, Mr. Moore apparently is. That is why perhaps he has resurfaced, after producing two box office bombs. He might not be the best guy from which to take financial advice. Just a thought.

He's not giving financial advice, Torie.

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Well, straight from the rumor mill, Mr. Moore apparently is. That is why perhaps he has resurfaced, after producing two box office bombs. He might not be the best guy from which to take financial advice. Just a thought.

Huh? You realize he's made the 1st, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 10th most commercially successful documentaries ever, right?

More to the point, Torie's critique of the man's argument was both ad hominem and straw man.  Mooreis not offering 'financial advice'; rather he is offering political commentary, and in either case the income of his movies is irrelevant to the validity of his comments.

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Yes, all left-wingers should be ascetics who live in tents and refuse to participate in the capitalist system and give away everything they earn to charity. Okay, Torie.

Yeah, right....that's all Moore is doing. Sure.

It is irrelevant to his argument whether he's ******** in a golden toilet bowl like all the other rich, Franzl.

 

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Sure my comment was meant to be primarily smartass (who knew?), but not entirely.  If a guy can't manage his own money and is a spendthrift, just why would he knew a damn thing about macroeconomics...

Because macroeconomics is essentially the opposite of 'personal finance', Torie, and spendthrifts do tend to be much better at it than small-minded parsimonious nincompoops.

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You don't think it makes intuitive sense that at a 35% estate tax rate, considerably more estates will just pay the tax, than if it is 55%, thereby creating a much greater financial incentive to put more money into a tax exempt foundation, which money would not be subject to the estate tax? 

Um, no.  The obvious policy solution is to eliminate tax exempt foundations, Torie.