Samuel L. Jackson Wants To Know Why Billionaires Don’t ‘Pay Their Taxes’

Samuel L. Jackson pays his fair share of taxes and wants to know why the wealthy elite don’t have to do the same.

The honorary Oscar winner dropped a few F-bombs in an expletive-filled rant against billionaires who don’t have to pay as much taxes as us common folk. In a deep-dive with Vulture, released on Thursday, July 20, Jackson went off after sharing his beginnings as an activist and explaining why Donald Trump’s slogan, “Make America Great Again,” makes his “blood boil.”

“I’m 74. I don’t know how much longer I’m going to be around here raising hell or doing what I’m doing. But people need to start understanding that the economic gap is crazy,” Jackson said.

“I pay an enormous amount of taxes, and it’s fine because I know I should. But why can’t we get billionaires to pay their fu*king taxes?” he continued

“If those motherfu*kers paid their taxes we’d solve a whole bunch of sh*t. And they would still be richer than every motherfu*ker walking around them.”

The Django Unchained star was recalling his early days of activism at Morehouse College, where he was expelled after holding board members in a room due to their refusal to meet with protestors.

“I got kicked out of school and I came to LA! Yeah. I had some trouble with some civil rights stuff in Atlanta, so I had to get out of town,” Jackson shared.

Having been front and center in the fight for civil rights in the ’60s and ’70s, Jackson witnessed real injustice at the hands of the government and an oppressive system. While he did serve as an usher at Dr. Martin Luther King’s funeral, Jackson knew he didn’t want to be a part of a “nonviolent protestor.”

“So that was the beginning, basically, of my activism,” he explained.

“Being a certain age and looking at the world and identifying it for what it is and what it becomes, which is why as soon as I hear ‘Make America Great Again,’ I go, ‘When are we talking about again? Are we talking about back when we had apartheid?'”

Samuel L. Jackson has been making his voice heard for a long time and he’s not going to stop now.