Millionaire Heiress Crusades Against Freedom to Spend Your Own Money

TDB's picture

Via The Daily Bell

In response to the tax bill which will lead to a lot more money in her pocket, Abigail Disney, heiress to the Walt Disney Company fortune, said she would be donating that tax break to a worthy cause of her choosing.

No, wait. That’s not it at all. She got in front of a camera and made a video complaining that other wealthy people and corporations won’t be forced to keep handing over quite as much of their money to the government now.

The video by Now This, which has 29 million views on Facebook as of today, features Disney trying to rile everyone up about how she and her private jet-owning friends will be taxed at a lower rate, how she can pass on assets tax-free to her children, and that health insurance won’t be forced on people when the individual mandate goes away in 2019.

“I know that we heard that the swamp was getting drained,” she says, “but given how this bill was written, I think it’s looking a lot like a nightmare from ‘Pirates of the Caribbean.’”

Even more telling than Disney’s cringe-worthy product placement jokes are the comments by viewers, arguing the merits or downsides of the particular tax plan, and engaging in ad hominem attacks, economic projections, and general complaints about “the wealthy.”

Sure, we could bicker about the exact way and amount we are taxed, picking apart the arguments Disney made in her video. For example, can she really say she is getting a “huge handout from Congress” if it was her money to begin with?

Can we conclude that “we know that wealth does not trickle down,” or should we ask one of the Walt Disney Company’s 195,000 employees, none of whom were earning a living off of Walt and Roy when the brothers were in “near-total poverty in the rural midwest”?

What exactly does Disney think is the right percentage to be taxed?

But these small details about who should owe what are exactly what the powers in government want us to be quibbling about. What Disney should actually be infuriated about, what she should “hope I’m making you angry” about, is that the ruling elite gets to make decisions about how her money is spent. They get to take it from the person who has it and use it in ways they see fit, to fund their pet projects, reward their donors, buy votes, and pad their wallets.

“No one who votes for this tax bill will be voting with your life in mind,” Disney said. “But you will pay for it.”

Well, that is one thing you got right, Ms. Disney.

The other thing that should just baffle and enrage us is Abigail Disney’s complete lack of confidence in her own ability to do good with her wealth. If she feels she does not deserve to hold on to her money, can’t she just donate that huge chunk of cash she “didn’t earn” instead of asking the government not to give it to her? Then the money would be going directly to the people or organization she felt deserved it the most, without going through the government bureaucracy: an incompetent middleman at best — and a bloated, corrupt, tyrant at worst.

In fact, in a great twist of irony, I have heard anecdotally of many individuals who plan to use their tax break to donate to their favorite liberal causes, a sort of middle finger to the GOP for . . . allowing individuals the financial autonomy to support organizations they deem worthy?

Wait, you mean the sky is not falling? Individuals with extra money in their pockets can voluntarily give it away to causes that are important to them without forcing their will onto the population as a whole? You sure showed those Republicans.

Even if Disney decided that straight-out charity wasn’t her thing, her investment of her “extra” money in real estate, another private jet — heck, even the world’s largest collection of Mickey Mouse bobbleheads — could only help the economy.

“More than anything, without a thriving and healthy middle class, there are no consumers for what Disney creates,” Disney laments, yet she can’t think of a single way the middle class might be helped except by rich people getting less of a tax cut.

Disney praises her grandfather and great-uncle Roy and Walt Disney for their “gumption, guts, and brilliance,” which ultimately led to a thriving company that is worth $92 billion today. People wait in line to see its movies, buy up its merchandise, and gladly pay exorbitant prices to visit the Happiest Place on Earth. But to hear her talk about “the 1 percent,” all the CEOs must just be greedy idiots when it comes to personal spending and could never use their business expertise to build up a nonprofit or finance a startup.

Meanwhile, Disney bemoans the United States’ “suffocating education system, a dying infrastructure, and a national debt that will be at least $1.5 trillion bigger.” But sure, let’s go ahead and give more money to a ruling elite that has been unable to keep the roads paved and the education system properly financed, all the while grossly overspending its budget and passing on its debt to future generations.

Guess what roads are always perfectly paved? The private ones leading into Disney World.

I wouldn’t put so much stock into what one misguided person with a soapbox has to say, except that her view is obviously echoed by so many. And it’s worse than not being an economically sound position. It’s a violent and immoral one too.

Because Disney, and others like her, are trying to frame themselves as the good guys, the ones looking out for the poor and weak in our society. But if that were the case, they would be content with giving away their own wealth and promoting worthy causes. Think of how many people she could influence with a Now This video aimed at feeding hungry children or providing low-cost health care to the destitute.

But that’s not good enough for her. It’s not good enough unless other people are forced, under violence or the threat of violence, to pay for the things that she thinks are the most important.

And judging by the general attitude of almost everyone I encounter in person or online, this is a pervasive idea: people must team up and force other people to do the right thing — the right thing as defined by their team.

Disney says in the video, “if democracy is just a bunch of people advocating for their own self-interest, instead of the interest of the greater good, then we’re not a democracy, we’re anarchy.”

She is using the words “democracy” and “anarchy,” but I do not think she knows what they mean. Democracy IS just a bunch of people advocating for their own self-interest. It is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. It is might makes right.

On the other hand, anarchy must look out for the interests of other people in order to coexist in society. Yes, each person can act in a self-interested way, but never to the point of coercion of another. There is nothing anarchical about using the government to force your will on others.

We have to turn the conversation away from the specifics of the tax bill and onto the elephant in the room: that most of the population approves of taking another person’s money at gunpoint in a manner and for an amount agreed upon by a majority. Filtered through government, most people are able to stomach this egregious act of violence.

That’s the real “Pirates” nightmare, Abigail.

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PrivetHedge's picture

An odd hatchet job on someone supporting the majority: the rich elites actually pay very little tax. Think zucker should pay more? Bezos?

And some Disney history before you attack her too much:

https://mynameisjoecortina.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/walt-disney-versus-t...

 

SmokeyBlonde's picture

Fucking Socialists!  Stealing from other people's hard-earned money while hoarding their wealth. No different than a Shticago street thug robbing the corner store at the point of a gun.

 

May their Hell entail "It's A Small World After All" playing for eternity.

ConfederateH's picture

"I have heard anecdotally of many individuals who plan to use their tax break to donate to their favorite liberal causes, a sort of middle finger to the GOP for . . . allowing individuals the financial autonomy to support organizations they deem worthy?"

TDB misses the target here.  In the lead up to the 2012 elections, Tea Party/Constitutionalist 501c's were stripped of their tax exempt status by (((Schulmann))) and (((Lerner))) and the entire movement was crushed.  Disney, and all the other followers of lucifer, would be able to donate that money to her favorite "causes" like the Clinton Foundation which would cut her taxes even more.  The Clinton Foundation is clearly a complete tax fraud that has NEVER been looked into by the IRS despite, just like those private email servers, it was beyond brazenly, in-your-face, illegal.  It was so illegal that the mere fact that these luciferians can get away with it is a message to all those who would consider objecting:  Don't even think about messing with us.

I think the correct response to Disney should be "if you are protesting about tax cuts then you must be hiding something.  Instant tax audit".

Golden Showers's picture

Democracy is Rule of the Mob, the common people cf: https://www.etymonline.com/word/mob

Here's Democracy: https://www.etymonline.com/word/democracy: common people

Evidently the "common people", district... and "mobility" are at the heart of the matter for our chunky heiriss. Mobility: Let's look at that word again: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=Mobility. It's also down there under Mob (N).

Although we have to understand that a public person: https://www.etymonline.com/word/person, or "persona": https://www.etymonline.com/word/persona in contrast with the private person "idiot" https://www.etymonline.com/word/idiot...

"I can pass 20 million through" at 1:10. A pass through entity. And all my friends in jets (lord of the power of the air), they get tax breaks too. And you fucks on Medicaid are up shit creek. Why am I telling you this? Because I'm laughing at you. I don't give a fuck. Do you think this purple makes me look fat? Who would want to pass through that entity? Better her kids trickled down her fat thighs because we know money doesn't trickle down, except if you are a Disney Heiress.

Money passes through. It doesn't trickle down. Ok. Thanks. You have scarred me for life you ugly beast. Thanks for condescending us.

That, I say, that, is a fat woman son. Son, I say, son, that is the whore of Babylon laughing at you in your face. And good. Thanks for the public service announcement. It's such a reassurance that you didn't have to do anything in your pathetic life to get rich, while we work our asses off doing everything we think we ought to please our betters.

Meanwhile, we're smarter than you, craftier, more resourceful, better educated, and never once needed your help. And our genetics are by far better. Our bodies are stronger. Our minds are stronger. Let me tell you something: the only thing that passes through me is water.

That bitch is crazy.

 

 

Akzed's picture

tee hee...

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/148777785/#148780864

HOLY SHIT SNOW WHITE AND DISNEY MIND CONTROL IN NK

http://www.truefreethinker.com/articles/mk-ultra-monarch-programming-disney-north-korea
>Most of the Disney films are used for programming purposes. Some of them are specifically designed for
mind-control.

>he Disney family and the Disney corporations are part of the occult world. While the names Dopey, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy, Grumpy, Sneezy, and Doc sound like names picked to please children, they are actually the translation from Scandinavian of the demonic dwarfs Toki, Skavaerr, Varr, Dun, Orinn, Grerr, and Radsvid
>readers thought Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs was simply a harmless piece of fiction.
They most likely didn’t realize that it is demonology.

CultiVader's picture

I missed her point entirely. Rich person complaining is all I got out of it.

chippers's picture

fcking scumbags like this twat are the best arguement for a 100% inheritance tax.

The Terrible Sweal's picture

What minion of the plutocracy wrote this pile of stink?

curbjob's picture

Someone who lives vicariously through a gold toilet seat ?

Daryl Zero's picture

TAKE....THEIR....MONEY!!!
They took it from us first.
Before they murder us in another war.

Give Me Some Truth's picture

Let people who want to pay 100 percent to the government pay 100 percent.

How old is this lady? Charge her 100 percent back to the first year she had an income. Charge her interest too. Take her homes, cars, art work, stocks, cash to pay her back-dated tax bill. She will sleep much better. 

She probably owes $500 million. Let her pay it. Make her pay it, or throw her in jail.  This is the fair and right thing to do.

PrivetHedge's picture

Before you look ignorant it may be worth you brushing up on the history of Disney.

https://mynameisjoecortina.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/walt-disney-versus-t...

 

curbjob's picture

In your opinion, is that fair punishment for someone expressing  an opinion ? ... or is it only because she's rich ?

AlbertthePudding's picture

Elitist spoiledbitchism is a nasty disease!

qdone's picture

prediction: eventually all these and related types will be dragged into the streets and dispatched. what good will all their bread have done them?

Dumpster Elite's picture

She seems extremely worried about the National Debt. Where were her videos for the last 8 years of the Magic Negro? Yet another fucking entitled leftie hypocrite.

PrivetHedge's picture

Where were Trumps? Or Obamas? Or Rumsfeld? McCains? Cheneys?

 

Why attack the one that speaks, coming from a family that battled the zionists rather more than you did.

SweetDoug's picture

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Let's hope a fool and her money...

How can these dumb f#$%ing _ _ _ ts have so much money when they're so f#$%ing stupid?

I know that axiom works for me...

OJO

V-V

rex-lacrymarum's picture

In this case the secret is inheritance. 

SmittyinLA's picture

I agree with miss Disney, time for mass revocation of tax deductible tax exempt status, or privatizing the federal budget, we can't have a "privatized tax code", we need an open tax code where everybody pays the same rate and nobody gets tax free and tax deductible political perks for their private causes (like the Clinton Foundation).

You want to fund a "cat charity" run by a billionaire do it on your dime with your taxed money.

http://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/jho-low-gave-least-us200m-celebs-c...

logicalman's picture

Abolish income tax.

Make all taxes excise taxes.

No tax code required - you buy shit, you pay tax, the more shit you buy the more tax you pay.

IRS vanishes.

No tax on food or clothing.

Wouldn't be perfect, but it would at least be transparent and straight forward.

Just think of all those unemployed tax collectors accountants and tax lawyers!

 

 

Setarcos's picture

That's been done, such as Value Added Tax in the UK and the Goods and Services Tax in Australia, both sorta promised to be replacements for other taxes, but in fact tacked on.  What a surprize!!

Nothing will change until after a massive crash, at least as bad as Russia suffered ... which has emerged with a 14% flat tax, fiscal responsibility, no debt to speak of and bright prospects ... assuming that the imploding Empire does not unleash WW3.

Jo A-S's picture

With you there.  Goverments never stop taking money in socialist EUSSR.  They just find another way to take tax of the working peoples.

tstpilot00101's picture

Ignorant spoiled bitch.

Irish Yoga's picture

OT: I'm so sick and tired of the MSM women interviewing and cutting off real people in mid sentence. Their fake eyelashes, short skirts, pump shoes, and heavy eye shadow literally detract from any validity they might have if they interviewed somebody without all their Hollywood makeup plastered on their faces. It's a shame really. They are almost intelligent and then they whore themselves for the TV cameras while the producer tells them what to think via their ear mini-mics and get to claim some type of celebrity status as an MSM whore.
I can add a bunch of idiotic male MSM to this rant but the last time I looked they weren't gluing fake eyelashes onto their faces nor painting their eyelids and lips. This rant is reserved for the idiot women who whore their way onto your TV screen.

Akzed's picture
New Disney Book Targets Babies For Sexualization And Gender Confusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgDkfMYFctk

NASA-JPL-Aleister Crowley-Ron Hubbard-Von Braun-Walt Disney Occult Pt.7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NASe4-D6tI

There are dozons of similar vids on the sidebars.

I don't recall Ms. Diz complaining about any of this, which is part and parcel of where her money came from.

EmptyBag's picture

It's clear that this lady doesn't understand that all the money in America does not belong to the Federal government.

If she thinks that instead of doing good with her money under her control isn't a good idea and that a bureaucracy that siphons off anywhere from 20% to 30% of all money it receives then she can easily go to pay.gov and click on the "Make a donation or contribution" link and give the Federal government as much of her money as she feels is wise.

Personally I believe in giving as little money to the U.S. Federal government as is legally possible.

hooligan2009's picture

well, where to start

1. she didn't earn a penny of the money she will inherit.

2. her predecessors have paid taxes (or not if via a foundation like the Clintons) on all the money she will inherit.

3. she can give her entire inheritance away - or just keep, say, 10 million to snort up her nose.

4. she can also start soup kitchens, rehab clinics, nurseries/kindegarten, old peoples visits - either paying for others to do it, if her "schedule" is too busy twerking her cousins.

5. 1.5 trillion extra deficit spending over ten years will be on top of a starting point of an 7.5 trillion ten year deficit. where was she when obamaCOULDN'T increased the deficit from 400 billion to a trillion a year AND RACKED UP 8 TRILLION OVER 8 YEARS, compared to 1.5 trillion over ten years, that will more than likel turn into a fiscal surplus and no deficit at all. one point five trillion is an estimate by fuckwits with a track record equal to those projecting the random walk of an electron.

6. aw hell, she is so lame, it's not worth detailing more points. she is simply a snowflake that has never done a day's work in her life, encountered no stress, faced no conflict where she can't just go sulk in her room - til she gets over it.

 

Your Creator's picture

force all leftists to hand over all of their money for taxes.

GreatUncle's picture

Democracy is just one small segment of the population paying or lieing to the others to keep voting for them so they promise all you demand to then break those promises because? ... they only want what is good for them only.

While the dumb fucking half fall hook line and sinker every time and where if WW3 actually kicked off and that half was killed off for being so stupid I would be  better off.

WW3 bring it, lets end this charade.

ZIONISM KILLS's picture

what  an  UGLY  Bitch,  with  all  that  cash, 

i  mean  seriously,  are  JEW  broads  TERMINALLY  FUGLY

I  wonder  is  Walt  dead,  or  hiding  from  family.

 

tattmaster's picture

actually wasted my time reviewing the disney family tree.  even by if a great conspiracy you determine walt disney to be crypto, how did you determine this bitch was?  downvote.

dr kill's picture

Walt sent them a message from his cryonic chamber, his New Year's Resolution for 2018 is to be unplugged.

Juggernaut x2's picture

Old Walt would be spinning in his grave if he knew how the Tribe was running DisneyCo right into the ditch.

White Devil's picture

Don’t complain, you fucking jew. Everybody knows you are a hasbarat shill.

RubyPetunia's picture

Why doesn't she just let Americans keep their jobs rather than importing cheap import labor -- and then make the Americans train them before firing them.

Juggernaut x2's picture

She has no controlling stake in Disney and has no input into how they run their business.

konadog's picture

Abigail Disney is anti-Trump. That's a given among the elites, but in this case, I think she's right for the wrong reasons. The reality is that debt and deficit spending do more economic damage than taxes. If Trump wants to MAGA, then he needs to MAGSA (make American government small again). The average citizen would be much better off Trump cut government and used the taxes to pay down the debt. Once the debt is under control, then cut taxes. The Trump plan cuts taxes and grows government which means far bigger debt and more inflation. Inflation hurts the little guy far more than taxes because low wage earners don't pay much in income taxes anyway.

Gatto's picture

How you can tell liberals are stupid!

<-- Liberals - I hate Trump and all his policies!

<--Also Liberals - I demand Trump take my money to fund his policies!

rex-lacrymarum's picture

However, in this case the tax cuts for low income earners are actually quite significant as a percentage of their tax bill and will definitely help them. Yes, it is true, government spending needs to be cut as well, it is a terrible burden on the economy. But there is also an aspect to the tax cuts one must not lose sight of - partculary the corporate tax cut, which may be largely meaningless for multinationals, but is actually quite meaningful for small and mid-sized businesses in the US: lower taxes will be an investment incentive and should ultimately boost economic activity, which in turn will increase revenue to the treasury as well. The only problem I see with respect to this idea is that the asset bubble created by the Fed over the past decade will probably implode soon. Compared to the chaos that will be unleashed when that happens, the tax cuts are a minor side issue. 

Singelguy's picture

That is probably in the planning but Rome was not built in a day. He has his enemies on the defensive now and if the economy doesn’t take a hit before the midterms, Trump has a shot at increasing the majorities in both houses and then the real action will begin. In the meantime, he will continue exterminating all the Obama hold overs in his administration who are still actively working against him.

Umh's picture

Sounds like all those rich snow flakes moving to Canada, New Zealand, .....

Yellow_Snow's picture

See ate the profits...

shimmy's picture

Just another dumb woman doing the usual virtue signalling. Shocking.

 

 

gmrpeabody's picture

If only the stupid knew they were stupid.., but then we wouldn't be entertained.

logicalman's picture

Your wise men don't know how it feels to be thick as a brick.

DavidC's picture

That album was released in 1972. 45 years ago. Anderson was right but just a shame that not much has changed.

DavidC

lasvegaspersona's picture

I think Anderson was quite the prude. Given he and I  are the same age I'll tell you the sexual revolution was more enjoyable than the song makes it seem....but a great song anyway....and my new shoe's heels are fine...as is my suntan...