Twelve years ago in his breakout performance as an arrogant young genius in Good Will Hunting, struggling fresh-faced actor Matt Damon sneered at his Boston psychiatrist for “surrounding yourself with all the wrong f__kin’ books. You wanna read a real history book, read Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States. That book’ll f__kin’ knock you on your ass.”
The political left loves shout-outs, and this was a direct one to Zinn himself, whom Damon actually lived next-door to as a child, and whose book apparently knocked the actor on his own behind. “Ben (co-screenwriter Affleck) and I were laughing our asses off writing that,” he recalls. (What is it with Damon and the word “ass”?) ”We liked it that the smartest guy in Boston was reading Howard Zinn.”
Now Damon is showing off his giant intellect again:
Matt Damon thinks that because he hoards his money, the rich aren’t job creators
Matt Damon, who pulls in quite a bit of cash for his movies, not only doesn’t think that the wealthy create jobs, but also wants the federal government to tax some of the very wealthy at a 50% tax rate!“Yes, the wealthy are paying less than they paid at any time certainly in my lifetime and probably, probably, you know, in the last century.”
Stu Fact Check: FALSE
“Reagan’s top tax rate was 28%,” Stu said. “Was he born after Ronald Reagan?” Stu joked. Matt Damon was born in 1970.
The current tax rate is 35%, so if anyone has studied math extensively could discern that 28% is less than 35%.
What else did Damon want? “ The really rich, guys like me, you know, or raise it to 50% after $5 million,” he told reporters.
Damon also doesn’t think that those who make $250,000 and above create jobs and small businesses.
“ Well, I didn’t go start a small business with my tax break,” Damon told a reporter. “And I don’t know anybody else who did. No, everybody’s socking their money away. That did not create any nobody went and started a business with their Bush tax cut. I don’t know who would believe something. That just defies common sense.”
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