Comedian/actor and former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Jon Lovitz created a lot of buzz this past week with his anti-Obama rant at a comedy club. Jon Lovitz went on Dr. Drew’s HLN show (did anyone know Dr. Drew had a show on HLN?) yesterday to explain his feeling more fully. See video below.
Jon Lovitz says he’s a Democrat who voted for Obama but is someone who is already paying his “fair share.”
What Lovitz (and others across the spectrum who share similar feelings) is generally getting to is that one of the beautiful things about America is its upward mobility. We don’t have a society in which class warfare traditionally has been an issue. You can start with nothing here and become a success. If, however, Obama personally or through his hyper-meddlesome bureaucrats continues to disincentivize or demonize entrepreneurial-minded men and women with high taxes and excessive regulation, the economy will never get back on track and the joblessness rate for ordinary people will never improve.
This is not about the “idle rich” living off trust funds; no one has any regard for what they have to give to the tax man.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, another Obama supporter, had concerns about the tax and regulatory policy of this administration. According to the Walter Isaacson biography …
“You’re headed for a one-term presidency,” he told Obama at the start of their meeting, insisting that the administration needed to be more business-friendly. As an example, Jobs described the ease with which companies can build factories in China compared to the United States, where “regulations and unnecessary costs” make it difficult for them. Jobs also criticized America’s education system, saying it was “crippled by union work rules,” noted Isaacson.
