A Canadian actor who lives in the U.S. is crying about how upset he is that he will be paying less taxes under President Donald Trump. The stupid is strong with this one.
Canadian actor Simu Liu — known for portraying Shang-Chi in Marvel’s superhero flick Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) — posted one of the most beta male things on the internet January 22. What more can you expect from some chronically self-absorbed pontiff coming out of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse asylum?
Liu, who supposedly pays U.S. taxes, actually filmed himself mourning in front of his 2.7 million TikTok followers that he will potentially be getting a tax cut under Trump’s tax plan. “I don’t need a tax cut, I’m happy to pay taxes. I believe I should pay taxes.” Then came the virtue-signaling kicker: “I actually believe that people like me should probably pay more tax! I’ve been very fortunate and I’m happy to pay my fair share.”
Does he realize the Treasury literally has an option to give as much as one wants to the U.S. government, including his reported $4 million net worth? Here, the MRC will even provide the link. Eureka! This was almost as cringe as when billionaire actress Selena Gomez turned herself into a meme by filming herself on social media bawling over Trump’s mass deportation of criminal illegal aliens.
But then again, Liu is also known for playing one of the emasculated Ken dolls in the anti-male movie Barbie (2023), so being cringe is apparently just commonplace amongst these politically-inclined leftist celebrity stereotypes.
But Liu continued down the whirlpool of Hollywood pontification about how this was “confusing” because supposedly “95 percent of Americans — Americans who make less than $360,000 a year, will not get tax cuts, they will have their taxes go up.”
It’s unclear where he got that “95 percent” figure from. “And that’s really shitty,” Liu wailed before expressing his condescending frustration for American voters who rallied behind Trump: “And I’m just so confused because you have so much of the American population who voted for a president who so clearly does not act in their best interest.”
So Liu got his pants in a bunch over people less fortunate than himself paying taxes before effectively calling the American people dumb for voting for the president they felt was more aligned with their economic interests.
But, as is typical with these Hollywood elites, Liu butchered the facts. The Tax Foundation released a study in November 2024 estimating the top one percent of income earners “(AGI of $663,164 and above) paid the highest average income tax rate of 26.1 percent—seven times the rate faced by the bottom half of taxpayers.”
Another November 2024 study published by the Tax Foundation completely nuked Liu’s arguments:
A common refrain from many progressive lawmakers is that the rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes. “Fair share” is, of course, subjective. But a new Treasury study provides data showing that the rich not only pay more than the middle class, they pay more than one-third of their annual income in federal taxes and more than 45 percent when state and local taxes are included.
Any comment Liu? To be fair, Congress is up against the clock as it struggles to permanently institute the tax cuts from Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 before they expire January 1, 2026.
As National Review summarized, “the largest tax increase in American history will hit every working family and small business in the country” if the TCJA provisions aren’t made permanent. But we’re only just over 10 days into Trump’s second term and there’s still time, so maybe Liu and other detached lefty celebs will be advised to keep off social media on this topic until next January.
