A Thank you from Larry David

[JanS]

and what did the tax cut extensions do for you?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/opinion/21david.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a212

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[mirabile]

…the tax cut extensions let me read this charming piece of literature from Larry David, that’s what it did. Thank goodness for bad politics, or sarcasm would never have existed. Let’s look on the bright side, yeah?

Beware! The following is thread piratism:

(Thanks, JanS. True story in re your avatar: I was in the audience of a men’s barbershop chorus last Saturday, and they were giving away a Charlie Brown Christmas tree as a drawing door prize. After they gave away the tree/branch/sadly looking thing, they were singing a song when all of a sudden everyone heard the sickly sound of glass breaking. Yep, that one little (oversized) Christmas tree ball had a-broken right then and there. There was a general groan, but, hey, that’s Charlie Brown for you. Nobody was surprised. It all worked out in the end. Of course it did! It’s Charlie Brown!) (That’ll be 5 cents, please.) Good grief.

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[mirabile]

But back to the Larry David op-ed piece…

Good for him for writing that. I appreciate some honesty from the haves.

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[christopherboffoli]

That’s pret-tay, pret-tay, pret-tay good.

Larry David is definitely one of the “haves” in a big way. Apparently in 1998, the year that Seinfeld had enough episodes to syndicate, David himself cleared over $250 million in the deal that year alone. Alas, that was back in the days when there was still money to be made in prime time television.

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[Smitty]

Very clever, and an extremely funny man.

That said, if he wants to write a check for what he thinks his taxes “should” be then he by all means he should do so.

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[dawsonct]

We shouldn’t have to depend on the largess of the already-have-most-of-the-wealth types, they should happily accept their tax burden as the price to live in a civil and prosperous Nation.

One that has kept them wealthy, and increased their share of the wealth so much over the last 30 years, we are in danger of losing our middle-class.

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Why would anyone want to be the richest person in a destitute country?

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[nuemes]

@dawsonct: “Why would anyone want to be the richest person in a destitute country?”

Because of the Golden Rule (those with the gold make the…) It’s not the Christian thing to do but neither is guilding St Peter’s ceiling with gold. On that note, maybe it is the Christian thing to do.

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