Forum Post: Why Aren't We Going After Celebrities? Is it because they are "liberals"?
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 19, 2011, 2:05 p.m. EST by ArrestAllCEOS
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How about the millionaire and billionaire Hollywood producers, directors, movie stars, singers? How about the millionaire, billionaire sports athletes?
They parade around driving their gas guzzling vehicles, they charter private jets instead of taking commercial flights, live in mansions, are dripping with jewels?
And they only work on a film at a time with personnel to dress, feed them, drive them. Give up your money!
Tell Jo L to give up her money, tell Michael Jordan to give up his cache, tell Steven Spielberg to give up his bank accounts, tell Caroline Kennedy to raid her trust accounts.
Stop your extravagant living. Donate your salary to the government! Don’t accept the pay producers and sports teams want to pay you. Donate! Role model what you ask of others!
Start donating your cash, get rid of your penthouses, high rise condos, designer clothes, shoes and purses.
Democrat billionaires and millionaires need to give up their money!
They bring in Millions of Dollars in Advertisements during the Superbowl, ticket sales leading up to games, restaurants, hotels, etc getting used.
As ridiculous as it may sound, Athletes and Actors are actually worth what they earn. Their pay is not arbitrarily chosen by themselves (like a CEO's pay is), their pay is determined by the worth of the TV Deals, merchandise sale, Ticket sales, Movie earnings, advertisement deals during primetime hours, etc. of the team/broadcasting company. In Short their pay is determined by YOU. If YOU want them to make less money, then quit going to see movies, quit going to basketball, football and baseball games, and quit watching TV. If you do this, then the ratings will go down, and CBS will make a smaller offer to broadcast the NFL, thus the Players will make less money. Companies will pay less to advertise during The Big Bang Theory and then the actors of that show will make less money, because they aren't worth as much to CBS. Stop going to see Steven Spielberg movies and Steven Spielberg will make less money.
It's very simple they get paid by YOU, NOT THEMSELVES. Tiger Woods is worth 1 Billion dollars because his advertising for Nike brought Nike 50 Billion dollars in Revenue. Don't buy stuff Advertised by LeBron and LeBron won't get paid $1M to do an advertisement.
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This is possibly the dumbest argument I've ever read
While I feel they make absurd amounts of money, bottom line is people pay for their movies/shows/etc so it is justified. There's no gov kickbacks or shady deals going on that allow them to make these movies nor force anybody to watch them.
You suggest they should give their money to the gov? Our gov is the one pissing our money down the toilet as we are in the tenth year of a budget deficit.
I don't see how this would help.
Agreed.Both dems and repugs on the hill,state and city offices have thrown our money away...2 wars,wallstreet bailout! Time to revamp the 2 party system.It no longer sustains the people.
Which side of the NBA dispute is the OWS on?