Nationalized! Welcome to millionaire Moore’s Torch Lake estate ( The Michigan View 03.03.11)

Posted by hpayne on March 4, 2011

Pack up the car everyone, we’re spending the summer at Michael Moore’s pad on Torch Lake.

In his latest rant against American capitalism, the multi-millionaire filmmaker (“Capitalism: A Love story”) told Laura Flanders of GritTV that the wealthy’s income should be nationalized.

“They’re sitting on the money, they’re using it for their own — they’re putting it someplace else with no interest in helping you with our life, with that money. We’ve allowed them to take that. That’s not theirs, that’s a national resource, that’s ours. We all have this, we all benefit from this or we all suffer as a result of not having it,” Moore told Flanders.

But for all his class warfare rhetoric, millionaire Moore is one of “them.” The famed documentary director has amassed considerable wealth and property as a result of the success of his films from “Roger & Me” to “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

That wealth includes a swanky 200 Park Avenue penthouse in New York City and a massive beachfront complex at 222 SE Torch Lake Drive on the bottomless, azure waters of Torch Lake just north of Traverse City.

In fact, Torch Lake sources say that Moore has recently done major work on the Torch Lake complex, doubling its size and increasing its value to perhaps $5 million. Some of that wealth has been amassed at the expense of Michigan taxpayers as Moore’s 2009 “Capitalism” documentary received subsidies from the Michigan Treasury under the state’s generous 42-cents-on-the-dollar film tax break.

The Mackinac Center’s Kathy Hoekstra reports that Moore had claimed opposition to such corporate welfare. “These are large multinational corporations — Viacom, GE, Rupert Murdoch — that own these studios,” Moore once told a Traverse City audience. “Why do they need our money, from Michigan, from our taxpayers, when we’re already broke here? I mean, they play one state against another, and so they get all this free cash when they’re making billions already in profits. What’s the thinking behind that?”

So Moore’s a hypocrite for taking subsidies. So now that he advocates the collectivization of millionaires’ property such as his own, all Michiganders can enjoy the fruits of their investment in his film. And the next time you’re in New York, crash at his Park Avenue address. If that suite is occupied, then Moore also has a place on West 83rd Street. Help yourself.

“So let’s get his 7,000 square foot house on Torch Lake. Let’s get his penthouse in New York City,” says Michigan’s #1 talk show host Frank Beckmann.

After all, as Moore would say – “that’s a national resource, that’s ours.”

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