While on set of his next film, actor Will Smith announced his support for the Buffett Rule , a minimum tax on millionaires proposed by Senate Democrats and President Obama. “I’m very supportive of that idea,” Smith told The Associated Press. “America has been fantastic to me. I have no problem paying whatever I need to pay to keep my country growing.” Smith is expected to earn $20 million for Men In Black III, and he earned $36 million from July 2010 to June 2011, according to Forbes. He isn’t the first celebrity to endorse higher taxes on the rich: in December, rap icon Jay-Z told CNN that “most people with a conscience, with some integrity, and moral fiber wouldn’t have any problem paying more taxes.”
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Category: author, CNN, Economy, Entertainment, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, Politics, Science, Taxes, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War | Comments OffJust one year ago, Glenn Beck held his Restoring Honor rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I have a dream” speech at the same memorial. While Beck said the timing was coincidental, he also stated that the timing of his event was “divine providence” and that his event would ”reclaim the civil rights movement” from progressives who had distorted it. But apparently, Beck has gotten bored with the mantle of civil rights leader because today, Beck said that he has declared ”an end to the civil rights movement in the West.” Listen:
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