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Actor Craig T. Nelson, the actor who starred in the ABC sitcom, “Coach,” from 1989-1997, said, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore” during a discussion of excessive taxation on Fox News Channel’s The Gleen Beck Show today.
Though the phrase was borrowed from Eddie Chiles, the Texas oil man who made it popular during the 1970s, Nelson delivered it with a passion that made this blogger believe he really meant it.
When asked by host Glen Beck if he is seriously planning to not pay his taxes this year, Nelson said he’s seriously considering just that, but would not make a 100-percent commitment to follow that path. The fact that he was on national television might have had something to do with his response.
5 responses so far ↓
1 grant lennon // May 28, 2009 at 4:50 pm
thats not what i heared and i quote
“im not gonna pay anymore money”
“im really thinking about it”
“i refuse to fund”
“im not gonna speand money on these things you want me to spend”
“im sick and tired of it”
dont know what interview you listened to?
2 hotoffthepress2 // May 28, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Grant — First of all, I paraphrased what I heard him say and did not include every word he uttered. If, however, you check a transcript, I think you’ll find he did not commit to not paying his taxes during the show. Second, if you’re trying to pick a fight with me, you’re off base, because I think we’re on the same side.
3 grant lennon // May 29, 2009 at 3:20 pm
yes we are just thought you were a little lite on it. dont think he had to say it directly.
4 COCOA // May 29, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Why should we fund the bottom feeders with our tax money. Single mothers with 5 babies daddy’s, HIV pts, ETOH abusers, STD funds and Viagra for sex offenders. I work at a Community Health Center it is a disgrace how our tax money is flushed down toilet. Medicaid! and they feel intitled and refuse to work, and they are NOT ashamed to make these type of statements.
5 millie // May 30, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Here’s what people are mad as hell about: the fact that, regardless of what the government is spending the money on, the government is on course to RUIN our economy, our standard of living, our national security and our Republic with its corrupt, absolutely unsustainable deficit spending, its magic Zimbabwe printing presses, and massive debt-mongering.
This is why there is a wildfire for tax revolt now. Americans have been paying through the nose for programs they depise, and know are wrong for our country, for decades. But the Obama administration is not just about such programs. It’s about setting a course that may irretrievably and fundamentally change our form of government.
Of course this is a cause for protest: our country is at stake. If people can find a way to protest through the tax system, more power to them (as Ghandi noted).
The reality today, however, is that civil disobedience to the IRS does not entail just possibly loss of physical freedom, which many people would gladly endure. It entails the potential for utter financial devastation for the individual and his family.
So, yeah, most people aren’t in the position to refuse to pay taxes altogether, because their first obligation is to try to provide for their family.
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