Shock! Hollywood Director Defends Capitalism and Trump’s Tax Plan

While other celebrities have been moaning and crying on social media about how the new tax bill is a sign of the apocalypse — one director has done the unexpected. He supports the notion of paying less to the government.

Asked about the role of wealth in societies and the relationship between different classes in an interview with The Denver Post, “All the Money in the World” director Ridley Scott said, “Well, let’s take the tax bill. People say [the Republicans] are doing it for the wealthy class. What they forget is if you get a clever, unselfish business person — I don’t care if it’s a corner store or a big business — who’s suddenly saving 15 percent, they’ll put it back in this business. Then you’re going to get growth and therefore [people] will get employed.”

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Scott added, “My concern is with the elderly, the infirm, and the youth who need to have chances and shots for every level, and equality in education. But you have to use it. You have to get your … head down and use it.”

Those words sound a lot more common-sensical and reality-based than the hysteria coming from much of the Left, evidenced by celebrities like Rosie O’Donnell — who took to offering bribes to Republican senators on Twitter in the hope they would vote against the recent bill.

Not surprisingly, the reporter interviewing Scott pushed back against the director’s pro-capitalist thoughts by saying, “I’m sure you benefited from some help early on in your career.”

Scott didn’t budge. He pushed back, in fact, and argued that individual hard work and perseverance were exactly what made him a success in Hollywood.

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“I’m a natural-born hunter because that’s who I am. No one taught me that. I started from scratch. I arrived in Hollywood with a wristwatch and stayed at the YMCA. You have to learn the curve. But don’t … moan about it. It’s about doing,” he said. “There’s always a way in. I used to lay concrete on runways for an Irish company when I was a student. I packed drywall. My parents didn’t have the money to help me out. But they were very supportive of anything I wanted to do.”

It would make sense for more artists to think as Scott does: He’s someone who understands the value of hard work and the individualist spirit, someone who pushes back against the idea of the government’s taking more and more power and money away from the people.

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Scott is still no stranger to hard work. And at 80 years old right now, he’s as busy as ever. “All the Money in the World” is his second film to be released this year, after this summer’s “Alien: Covenant” — and he managed to get extensive reshoots done in just weeks before his newest film hit theaters in order to replace alleged sexual predator Kevin Spacey with an original choice for the role, Christopher Plummer.

Even with all that drama, “All the Money in the World” has earned high praise from critics, specifically for Plummer’s performance, which has elicited strong Oscar buzz.

PopZette editor Zachary Leeman can be reached at [email protected]. 

(photo credit, homepage image: Ridley Scott, CC BY-SA 2.0, by Gage Skidmore; photo credit, article image: Ridley Scott, CC BY-SA 2.0, by Gage Skidmore)