Fox News -Each year, millionaires are soaking the government, not illegally, for some $30 billion in benefits from tax giveaways and loan programs, according to a report by Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma. The eye-popping findings in the 36-page report include some eye-catching names, like former NBA star Scottie Pippen and billionaire media mogul Ted Turner, both of whom received farm subsidies courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. Singer Jon Bon Jovi paid property taxes of only $100 last year on a plot of land he used to raise bees. Iconic crooner Bruce Springsteen also got in on the farm subsidy action, for property he leases to an organic farmer. And Millionaire composer-producer Quincy Jones is even singled out for receiving a $25,000 award from the federally-funded National Endowment for the Arts.
Is this stuff real? Like if I raise a school of bees, I'll basically pay 0 taxes? Public safety and well being of my neighbors be damned, I'm going out today and buying me some bee larvae, I don't know the first thing about bees, certainly don't have enough flowers for them to feed off of (though I wonder if they enjoy old grease?), and certainly don't have the acreage to protect any of my neighbors who may be allergic, but if I can get off tax free, I'm doing it.
Look at Scottie Pippen over there, makes millions playing second fiddle to MJ all those years, retires and finally decides to bee his own boss, with the government footing the bill. Overalls on, hayseed hanging from his mouth, just plowing corn, or whatever the hell crop a multi-millionaire, former NBA great would grow...and he couldn't be doing it at a better time either, now that all these college dropouts and high school graduates are going to be out of work this season (or at least in all likelihood will be), they're going to be needing simple jobs that don't require any education whatsoever, and Scottie's going to be there waiting with arms open. Just rolling in government cash, and strong physical labor. Scottie's basically positioned to take over the farming industry...Unless of course MJ owns a tobacco farm or something, in which case Scottie would be back playing number two...again.
