During a recent interview with Marc Maron on his WTF podcast, Tim Allen discussed his conservative political views, including why he leans to the right, Mediaite reports. Among the topics covered: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and paying taxes.

“I just don’t like — once I started making money — I had this silent partner that took almost half of my money and never gave me anything for it. That was the taxes,” he told Maron. “I’ve never liked taxes. Whoever takes the taxes and never tells me what they did with it. I’m a fiscal conservative with money. That’s it.”

He added: “Never liked taxes. Never liked what they do with the taxes and the bullsh*t on both sides. It’s not their money.”

I’m not fond of some of the things Democrats and Republicans do either on some occasions, but those taxes go to fund the nation’s social programs, including of course, social security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other health insurance programs, defense, and international security programs. That’s according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

So while it’s understandable that Allen may not like this, he has a net worth of $100 million and as the star of Home Improvement, he took home $1.25 million per episode at the show’s peak — the fifth-highest salary ever paid to a television actor, Celebrity Net Worth reports. He was paid $235,000 per episode for his recently canceled sitcom Last Man Standing.

So Allen can afford to drop a dime or two into the public till without worrying where his next meal comes from, unlike some of us, who rely on the government’s beneficence through no fault of our own. Many of us paid for that beneficence via years of hard work with the confidence that it would protect us as we grew older.

Reuters reports Allen has never directly voiced his support for Trump, but he did attend the former president’s inauguration in 2020.

It seems he doesn’t like talking about politics, preferring to avoid backlash over his own beliefs, and he says he doesn’t “preach anything.”

“What I’ve done is just not joined into — as I call it — the ‘we culture,'” he said. “I’m not telling anybody else how to live. I don’t like that. ‘We should do this, we should do that.'”

However, he did mention he liked the divisiveness Trump caused.

“Once I realized that the last president pissed people off, I kind of like that,” Allen said, laughing. “So it was fun to just not say anything. Didn’t join the lynching crowd.”

Yeah, well a lot of us didn’t find Trump’s divisiveness “fun.” He sent in the National Guard to deal with peaceful protesters in Portland last year and in some cases, activists were dealt with brutally. Thanks to his divisiveness, fringe political elements that previously kept to themselves spread as virulently as the pandemic, and the Republican Party is now polarized.

Furthermore, while Allen said that former President Bill Clinton “was a genuinely nice guy to me” he “just didn’t think that Hillary should have been president.” While I’m not crazy about Hillary Clinton either, she would have definitely, as the old saying goes, been the “lesser of two evils.”

Ask yourself, would the January 6 riot at the Capitol Building have occurred with Clinton as president? I think we all know the answer to that question.

So maybe Allen should just stick to acting, where he belongs.

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