From here:
Excerpt 1:
Phil Mickelson apologized for saying he would have to make “drastic changes” due to new U.S. and California tax laws. The 42-year-old golf champion said the comments should have remained private.
Excerpt 2:
Forbes magazine ranked Mickelson the seventh highest-paid athlete in 2012 with $47.8 million in earnings, including $43 million in endorsements from sponsors, including the accounting firm KPMG LLP and Barclays Plc (BARC), Britain’s second-largest bank. He’s won $67.7 million in prize money during his PGA Tour career.
There are people choosing between heating their homes and feeding themselves, or choosing between their medications and heat and this asshole worth $180 million is bitching and moaning about his taxes.
This is some French Revolution let them eat cake bullshit.
Fuckin’ really? You went public with this sentiment.
You are a clueless rich asshole, dude.
“You are a clueless rich asshole, dude.” – I couldn’t agree more.
After seeing J.K Rowling on Jon Stewert who said the reason she remains in the UK even though taxes are higher is because she at one point in her life needed welfare. And therefore she feels as though it’s her job to repay and help others by paying her fair share in taxes. Now why is it that it is primarily the rich in the US that are such cheap pricks about their millions? Or is it my ignorance here showing and it’s not primarily the rich US individuals?