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Gonz

Gonz

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Hell no.

Warren Beatty, an actor who has dabbled in politics across four decades, has some words of advice for fellow film star and now Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Schwarzenegger should raise taxes on the California rich and "terminate" his fund-raising and dinners with "the brokers of Wall Street" and the "lobbyists of K Street," Beatty said.

Receiving a political award Friday night, the actor who played Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth in the 1998 movie, "Bulworth," said: "Arnold. Be the action hero I know you can be. Be strong. Stand up and confront the wealthiest 1 percent of Californians who have benefited $12 billion a year from the Bush tax cuts."

Beatty received the third annual Phillip Burton public service award Friday from the Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights for a lifetime of political work. Burton was a liberal San Francisco congressman who died in 1983.

Beatty said he wants to root for a fellow actor in the governor's office, but said he's disappointed that Schwarzenegger is yielding "to a reactionary right-wing agenda in order to get a political party to become a president. That's not so fine with me. It makes me sad for Arnold."

Beatty said Schwarzenegger should lead the rich toward helping California.

"It's called the haves giving a little more to the have nots," he said. "Nobody likes taxes, but everybody likes a peaceful, compassionate, law-abiding, productive, protective society."

Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Vince Sollitto replied Saturday: "Tax and spend rhetoric aside, California needs budget reform because it's not a revenue problem, but a spending problem."
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Spoken like a true liberal. He can't find work so he won't pay any taxes. I wonder, has Mr Beatty ever written a check to Uncle Sam & sent it, without a return address, to the treasury?
 
"You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich."

Abraham Lincoln. Most of y'all seem to respect him. I at least agree with him on these points.
 
Californians are already some of the most-taxed people in the US. That's how a "free" cell phone costs $14.52 here. How did you like Beatty's little jab at Arnold becoming president? Never mind that it would be unconstitutional and that it's some Schwarzenegger supporters that brought up the idea, not the governator himself.
 
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