On Tuesday, President Barack Obama signed a difficult bill, that would either help to make us…or break us.
The signed debt deal marked an "important first step to ensuring that as a nation we live within our means,” says President Obama. He added that the deal was the result of a “long and contentious debate” to elude from an economic catastrophe.
However, one outspoken actor isn’t keeping quiet on what he thinks of the newly signed deal.
"The wealthy are paying less than they paid at any time else, certainly in my lifetime, and probably in the last century," Damon said at the Save Our Schools March, in which he was a speaker. "I don't know what we were paying in the roaring '20s; it's criminal that so little is asked of people who are getting so much. I don't mind paying more. I really don't mind paying more taxes. I'd rather pay for taxes than cut 'Reading Is Fundamental' or Head Start or some of these programs that are really helping kids. This is the greatest country in the world; is it really that much worse if you pay 6% more in taxes? Give me a break. Look at what you get for it: you get to be American."
The Bourne Supremacy star, who campaigned with Obama in 2008, also gave his input on whether he thought tax cuts helped to create jobs.
“I didn't go start a small business with my tax break, and I don't know anyone else who did. No, everybody's socking their money away," he said. "I was against those tax cuts. I thought they were ridiculous. So little is asked of the upper class anyway. I mean what percent of them or their kids are fighting in any of these wars? What percent of their day is occupied by the fact that there are men and women in positions over the world, risking their lives? If you walk down 5th Avenue, there's no sense of shared sacrifice."
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