Michael Moore explains why he’s different from other multi-millionaires
Kelly McParland Nov 15, 2011 – 10:25 AM ET
Michael Moore has a lengthy justification for his wealth on the web site he uses to sell his books, films and himself.
It’s called “Life among the 1%”, a group of which Moore has been claiming he’s not a member. In it, he seems to confess that, yes, he is a rich guy after all. But not like other rich guys. He’s a rich guy who comes from a working class background, who scraped and scrambled for his money, and who cares.When he sold his first documentary, he recounts, he was paid $3 million and immediately shared the good news “with a group of factory workers, students and the unemployed in the middle of the downtown of my birthplace, Flint, Michigan.”
Not only that, he shared the money. He paid every cent of tax owing (no loopholes or avoidance strategies), set up a foundation to help others, spent a small fortune buying stuff and paying debts for others, and put the rest in a savings account (no investments or Wall Street gizmos). Read More »
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