American Patriot Toby Keith Owes $250,000 in Taxes..

Rocinante wrote:I bet he owns some guns.

Cym Jim wrote:He really supports the troops. I mean, he really fucking supports them.

MasonGuy wrote:After watching what your tax dollars go for, maybe there ought to be a little bit of Toby Keith in all of us.

Jethro Bodeen wrote:That asshole Toby Keith! He probably only pays $20,000,000.00 in personal and business taxes a year as it is! He sucks! All of the hundreds of thousands of Mexican, Honduran, Guatemalan and Nicaraguan   boarder crashers in TX, NM, AZ and CA are MUCH better Americans than he is! And I bet he watches FOX News and has stock in Halliburton and shook Dick Cheney's hand one time that complete piece of Republican, White, Trash!!!!!

Robert J Sakimano wrote:what a great American he is..

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/06/17/toby-keith-bar-in-syracuse-owes-more-than-250k-in-taxes/

Rocinante wrote:

Actually, pretty close.  He's in the top earner income bracket, which means he pays 39.6% which if his reported 2013 earnings are correct (65 mil), comes out to about 25,740,000.

What a travesty that he only gets to keep 39,260,000 of his (reported) income that he earns playing music and writing songs.

Jethro Bodeen wrote:

Well, I guess everyone should just play for free at Hobies Open Mike night so we can make sure no one ever becomes a big success....  .

BTW you are also forgetting the state taxes he pays for any business he conducts in states with income taxes. He pays it as well as anyone in his band and road crew. Then, there is fuel taxes and other sales taxes paid by his touring operation. His payrolls pay millions in Social Security and Federal employment taxes. I'm sure he pays millions to accounting firms just to pay the fucking monstrous and complex taxes. And after all of that, he and everyone he employs are paying shitloads in taxes to every greedy level of government from everything from fishing licenses to common sales taxes to property taxes on the homes they purchase. And its all paid because Toby Keith has the god-damn NERVE to play music people like to listen to and purchase. What a cock-sucker he is!   

And ask yourself the question: At what tax level would people with the ambition of Toby Keith just say "****-it" and not try to do anything?

I don't even like the motherfuckers music. But to suggest the guy is somehow not paying his "fair share" is a crock of shit born of snotty, leftist envy and hatred.

Tanfan! wrote:

Restaurants? Worst investment evah.  I can see that freight train ruining him financially. He doesnt owe it his corporation owes it. He probably has a licensing agreement for the name.

Jethro Bodeen wrote:
And ask yourself the question: At what tax level would people with the ambition of Toby Keith just say "****-it" and not try to do anything?

Jethro Bodeen wrote:
I don't even like the motherfuckers music. But to suggest the guy is somehow not paying his "fair share" is a crock of shit born of snotty, leftist envy and hatred.

AvgMSUJoe wrote:
Never... look back at the good old days when the tax rates were 80%... rich still where rich... Charleton Heston still made movies. Koch's daddy still became a gillionaire.
Your premise is flawed in a free market. Even if he did quit... someone else would fill the void for crappy over produced "country" music and make his money.

I would venture to guess when he is driving his hummer on the (publicly funded) highways and biways of this great land, the road he drives on is worth a bunch more cash to him then it is to everyone else. I KNOW the rule of law the police and courts and govt which allows him to make his huge money is worth every penny he pays in taxes. (Cause he would never be rich and/or safe otherwise...) Dude got a ton more to lose then the rest of us.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:what a great American he is..

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/06/17/toby-keith-bar-in-syracuse-owes-more-than-250k-in-taxes/

AvgMSUJoe wrote:
Never... look back at the good old days when the tax rates were 80%... rich still where rich... Charleton Heston still made movies. Koch's daddy still became a gillionaire.
Your premise is flawed in a free market. Even if he did quit... someone else would fill the void for crappy over produced "country" music and make his money.

I would venture to guess when he is driving his hummer on the (publicly funded) highways and biways of this great land, the road he drives on is worth a bunch more cash to him then it is to everyone else. I KNOW the rule of law the police and courts and govt which allows him to make his huge money is worth every penny he pays in taxes. (Cause he would never be rich and/or safe otherwise...) Dude got a ton more to lose then the rest of us.

Robert Redford is suing New York state related to the sale of Sundance Channel.

The actor-director sued the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance in Albany County Supreme Court on July 30 claiming that he's being overtaxed on money his company made when it sold off a stake in the channel in 2005.