Atlas Shrugged Movie Trailer Released!

via www.youtube.com

Looks a lot better than I expected!

(TVA)

Comments

[TerjeP]

1.

Thank god! Now I don't have to read that damn book.

[Matt]

2.

I've read it six times, all 1084 pages of it! She does waffle on a bit. It is a good book and sort of makes sense of what is ocurring in our world at present. The movie is only about part one of the book (Non-Contradiction), hopefully the other two parts will be made.

[Dan Nolan]

3.

A lot of my friends say that Atlas Shrugged is starting to come true. Will wait and see.

[pk]

4.

Good ol' Ayn 'I oppose social security, except when I need to go on it myself' Rand.

[TerjeP]

5.

I claim entitlements I don't believe in (eg FTB) and I also pay taxes I don't believe in. What of it?

[Michael Sutcliffe]

6.

Good ol' Ayn 'I oppose social security, except when I need to go on it myself' Rand.

That's called getting your taxes back. We are long, long past the point where a decent person should try to set an example and say "I'll refuse this middle class handout on principle, take the high moral ground with me and let's work together to stop this rort". That time ended 60 years ago. I'm an objectivist and I try to get every middle class handout I can, I structure my life around tax minimisation and I loved it when the tax levy got imposed on other people so my family could have an extra $2800 to pay off those holiday bills. When I see the Europeans having to impose 'austerity measures' on their bloated welfare states I feel an inner warmth. In short, PK, I want to make sure people like you are paying high taxes and I'm getting the benefit (at least until the whole bloated system collapses like we're seeing in rest of the Western world), and I would recommend that course of action to any objectivist. Now, can you go and do some more overtime please, I was hoping for an increase in my family supplement benefits this year.

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7.

PK,

Refusing welfare is saintly. Getting welfare back on taxes you have already paid, but opposed paying in the first place, simply means you prefer to make your own economic decisions. You think if you refuse the principle of old age pensions in terms of economic decision making, then you should also refuse the return?

If you disagreed with your super fund on the investment decision, would you simply leave them with all of your funds?

I don't approve of every thing the ADF has done but it doesn't mean I take arms up against our own military.

Actual cases of hypocrisy are economic left wingers minimising taxation, driving around in BMWs and owning businesses.

That's just sheer nonsense. They then have the temerity to call others "capitalist pigs"!

[Michael Sutcliffe]

8.

My comment at 8:35pm above: tax levy = flood levy