Video: Kevin O'Leary mouths off about Chris Hedges, taxes, Ayn Rand, and asset bubbles

Vile. Despicable. Pathetic. Hard to understand why harper wants to cut CBC funding when they give this man a podium.

So let me get this straight this oh so great capitalist sucks of the State Funded Socialist TV Teat? How hypocritical is that?

His a throw back to the 80's the world is moving on by people like him.

Really? I thought Mr. O'Leary made is arguments very well. Mr. Smith could have done a better job of conducting the interview (another microphone for starters). If this was debate class, O'Leary takes it hands down.

This guy is the poster boy of what's wrong with our economy.

Mr. O'Leary speaks well, and is convincing, from a theoretical point of view. The fact is that user fees on services and ultilities would be very punishing on the poor segments of the population. Some people might argue that BC Ferry fares are a form of user fees, but actually they are a means of extra taxation for those directly using the service on top of taxes already paid to fund ownership of the utility. Also, about lowering corporate taxes to ZERO: Just because this might happen does not guarantee capital flights to Canada. The government must ensure a trained, educated and healthy population provided by -GUESS WHAT- tax dollars, or else the corporations have to pay for these to their workers. Better a little taxation and a decent rate of return than no taxes and a burden to provide own services. So, Mr. O'Leary, based on these examples alone, operates in a world of supply side textbooks and Atlas Shrugged, and not reality.

Of course O'leary does not want to give up his money for taxes, he stole it fair and square.

I strongly suspect that this guy is much less rich and much less of a dealmaker than he pretends to be. He sells himself so hard - he has obviously studied Donald Trump very closely and aspires to be the Canadian version thereof. Like Trump, his primary source of wealth is his own self-created brand, not real capital in a real business. Why seek to emulate a two-bit hustler and serial bankruptcy case?

The irony is that the model of prosperity O'Leary touts ("tout" being the operative word here) - deregulation, reduction in government revenue, shifting the tax burden off corporations and wealthy people - has failed spectacularly in the United States. Rampant speculation without adequate taxation and regulation hasn't created wealth, it has destroyed it. O'Leary is a cheerleader for economic delusion and failure. But who cares about this result, as long as Kevin adds to his net worth?

I don't like my tax dollars going to a repulsive human such as O'Leary via his paycheque from the CBC. They ought to toss him, with Cherry to boot!

Kevin O'Leary is a disgrace to good journalism. In his own words he "Attacks" ideas he believes have no merit. This not what a Journalist does... journalists are not rabid pitbulls. You debate an idea, you present a well documented case. You study the issue in all its myriad forms. Whether you agree with Chris Hedges POV or not... any fool can see that O'Leary was not prepared, did not know the information and had jumped to his usual conclusions. First rule of Good Journalism.... Assume you are wrong, gather evidence to prove that you are wrong and hopefully in doing so support a case that is the more truthful arguement. If you saw the Chris Hedges interview, it was embarassing. I only thank God that there are still people like Chris Hedges who can keep their cool and do their best to remain calm.

Thankfully, I only recently heard of this buffoon, thanks to the internet I rarely listen to CBC or watch it anymore. In fact, I only heard about this goof b/c of his disgusting mistreatment of Chris Hedges, which I watched on You Tube.

So I don't know his personal background. But could someone tell me, how does being a talking head on CBC qualify you to be a "capitalist". Maybe, like another "capitalist" cum TV Goof, Donald "my hairline is 2 cm from the bridge of nose" Trump, O'Leary did make his money as a financial parasite (which arguably has little to do with capitalism), may he sold widgets, but was he a 'capitalist'.