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thegreatack said, 5 months ago
Who cares?
Omnius said, 5 months ago
Depardieu is fat and stupid and a worthless actor, France was lucky to get rid of that deadbeat. Glad he’s not coming here, we don’t need any more tea bagging whiners.
BarbaBlanca said, 5 months ago
Not fat enough.
Dredpiraterobt$ said, 5 months ago
Who cares? How about all the people that say “If you tax them, they will leave!”?
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Here was a guy who felt overtaxed (as if there is such a thing when you’re in the entertainment industry! You make an unreasonable amount of money and if it’s not enough for you then you hold out for more money. It wouldn’t matter if the tax rate were 1% of 90% you’re just demanding that you are left with 500 times the average person’s income after tax to do a single movie doesn’t really make any difference to you how much that costs the studio.) so he took his “business” elsewhere.
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Now we’ll see if that helps him keep more money or it hurts his effort to do the same.
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My feeling is that he is going to have hurt his reputation to the point where the money he will be able to demand for parts will mean that he will net the same to less as compared to staying a French Man. The French are pretty Texas about whom they consider to be “French”.
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OTOH he might wind up with a role that “Steve McQueen”s him. and then everything that was against him is now working for him. Such is the French love affair with “Art.”
josefw
said, 5 months ago
Other successful French citizens are leaving, too. For example, the founder of Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton is also applying for citizenship in Belgium.
Even worse, not only are talented people leaving France, but you can’t get talented people into France to work. “We can’t bring high-level managers to France,” Eric Chaney, an economist at French insurer AXA, told Bloomberg news.
Justice22 said, 5 months ago
Bridget Bardot wishes to do the same now.
Darsan54
said, 5 months ago
Yeah, this is the guy who bragged about raping women. Let the Russians have him.
SkepticCal said, 5 months ago
@thegreatack
Care? I do. You should.
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Nothing moves quicker than rich people.
Dredpiraterobt$ said, 5 months ago
@josefw
The “founder of Moet Hennesy Louis Vuitton” you say?
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“The Hennessy cognac distillery was founded by Irishman Richard Hennessy in 1765”
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“Louis Vuitton Malletier, commonly referred to as Louis Vuitton (/ˈluːiː vwiːˈtɒn/; French: [lwi vɥi’tɔ̃]), or shortened to LV, is a French fashion house founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton.”
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“Moët et Chandon was established in 1743 by Claude Moët”
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So what did your founder found other than the OPM to buy up brands founded by others?
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Answer: Nothing!
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What EXACTLY is this “talent” you refer to?
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I read the Autobio of Pete Townshend where he dealt (briefly) with the subject of being a Taxed Brit popstar (Let me tell you how it will be, that’s 1 for you 19 for me) and what they usually did.
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They created service companies in (say) Bermuda where all of the earnings went to and then the service company would pay out the earnings over time, thus averaging the income over years instead of it spiking and being taxable all today.
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In this country we have plenty of ways to shelter substaintial income. Leaving the nation is onlyfor those that have sustained incomes of $100,000,000 per year and more, for the rest of their lives.
Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago
Libs are the first to whine when someone decides to move instead of paying confiscatory taxes. But then again, libs are the last to pay their fair share of taxes.
Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago
If adoption was advertised 1% as much as abortion we would have more American kids available for adoption. But that choice isn’t convenient to women.
Rickapolis said, 5 months ago
‘Let them leave and decrease the surplus population.’
Robert Landers said, 5 months ago
@Ms. Ima
You are such an insulting Troll! Is it even possible for you to debate here in a reasonable way. There are conservative minded posters here who are intelligent enough to do just that!
Robert Landers said, 5 months ago
@Ms. Ima What on earth makes you even think that abortion is even somewhat admired (and anything that is being “advertized” is being done so for admiration), even by those that advocate for a woman’s choice to have one?Obviously, you are not a woman that has ever even had a miscarriage, or a man like myself that has had to hold his good wife because she had to go through losing even a potential child! I can not even imagine that abortion is much better for most of women that have to go though the procedure!Abortion should absolutely be allowed to save the life of the potential mother, an already fully developed human being. Or in the case of rape (and some ultra conservatives statements in this are so stupid as to not even be worth commenting upon), or in incest (which is proven to be a major cause of birth defects).And of course, you would be perfectly willing to have your taxes at least doubled to pay poor women to be able to raise these literally millions of potential children in a reasonable manner? If you are the follower of Christ the you seem to be claiming to be, then you should be more than happy to do that, as your part in carrying his cross!!PS: One place where er should be willing to agree on this issue is not abortions should be performed after the first six months of a pregnancy, as there really is a viable and actualy savable baby in the womb by that time!
Molon Labe said, 5 months ago
@Robert Landers
Robert,
So you are in favor of keeping it legal to kill 32% of all black children concieved in the US by abortion? The CDC latest abortion figures are for 2007 and show that for black women 471 abort their babies for every 1000 live births. The most dangerous place for a black person in the US to be is in his mothers womb. On average about 15 women die in childbirth for every 100,000 births. For blacks that is about doubled to around 30 deaths per 100,000. In 2007 there was a total of 548 maternal deaths in the whole country related to or aggravated by pregnancy which occured during or within 42 days of the termination of the pregnancy (http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa11/hstat/hsrmh/downloads/pdf/230mmm.pdf) or about 12.7 per 100,000 live births, or 0.0127 per 1000 live births. That leaves about 470.9873 per 1000 live births to explain.
Are you trying to tell me that all the other abortions are incest or rape related? You have a really twisted view of the black population then. There are estimates that slightly more than 32,000 pregnancies result from rape including each year (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8765248) for the whole country.
In our country it is traditional that there be no corruption by reason of blood. Meaning that you cannot be punished for something your father did, just because he was your father. It means that even if your father was a rapist, you should not be put to death for what he did. Punishments should result from your actions and not your parents. Tell me, what crimes have these unborn children committed that warrents their being killed? Which courts have convicted them?
Given the evidence that the democrats support killing black children at these levels, it is not unreasonable to suppose that it must be a result of their racist tendedcies and history. The Democrats fought for the Confederacy. They fought against every civil rights legislation concening blacks between 1850 and 1965. They founded the KKK. Woodrow Wilson segregated the civil service. Democrats fought against the integration of schools. Democrats are historically, politically and morally racists.