Samuel L Jackson expressed his frustration with the billionaires' tax dodging and questioned, "Why can't we get billionaires to pay their f****g taxes?" The Academy Honorary Award-winning and famously foul-mouthed actor expressed his outrage when asked about his political engagement during a recent interview with Vulture.
"I pay an enormous amount of taxes, and it's fine because I know I should. But why can't we get billionaires to pay their f**king taxes?" the 'Django Unchained' actor stated. "If those motherf**kers paid their taxes we'd solve a whole bunch of s**t. And they would still be richer than every motherf**ker walking around them."
What is Samuel Jackson's net worth?
Samuel L. Jackson has a $250 million net worth, according to Celebrity Net Worth, and his films have earned more than $16.7 billion at box offices worldwide; excluding cameo appearances. The highest-earning actor of all time is paid $10 to $20 million for each leading part in a big show.
The 'Avengers' actor is not the only one who is displeased. According to a survey by the Pew Research Center of 5,000 US adults, 60% of Americans believe that the wealthiest "don't pay their fair share" of taxes. The same is true for 61% of respondents with regard to corporations. Furthermore, it's debatable if a wealth tax on billionaires would "solve a whole bunch of s**t." According to a paper from the Institute for Policy Studies, Patriotic Millionaires, Fight Inequality Alliance, and Oxfam, enacting a wealth tax may fund a number of government initiatives, such as an expansion of the child tax credit and the US defense budget.
The 'economic gap is crazy'
26 of the wealthiest Americans, including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk, paid an average federal income tax rate of 4.8% between 2013 and 2018, according to research by the left-leaning Americans for Tax Fairness: This is in part because the majority of their wealth is derived from assets rather than income. Jackson, 74, has never been reluctant to express his opinions. He occasionally launched into a hilariously foul tirade about stingy billionaires when describing how his career as an activist began. "I'm 74. I don't know how much longer I'm going to be around here raising hell or doing what I’m doing," Jackson noted. "But people need to start understanding that the economic gap is crazy."