Craig T. Nelson and Glenn Beck

Craig T. Nelson, star of the '90s TV series Coach, is ready for a revolution.

On Glenn Beck's show, Nelson joked around a bit but then became very serious. He's fed up because the government has let him down. He doesn't want to pay income taxes anymore.

Transcript

GLENN BECK: You're from California.

CRAIG T. NELSON: It's no longer a state. It's a hedge fund, you know?

BECK: Yeah. It's crazy.

NELSON: Well, I do have a solution. There's only one way. We've got to make them, you know, we've got to make people stand up for their responsibilities. They were accountable, and they haven't been. No one is accountable anymore for anything. No one did anything wrong. No one's, everyone's 'Well, you're to blame. That's to blame. This is to blame.'

As an investor, as someone who gets taxed an awful lot, I just say I'm not gonna pay, till you guys can show me that you're fiscally responsible. Until then... listen, the first they went after -- education. We're gonna cut education...

BECK: Why would they do that?

NELSON: Why? That's the most important thing in the world.

BECK: And then cops and prisons.

NELSON: And firefighters. We don't have any fires in California.

BECK: (Laughs)

NELSON: They were within half a mile of my house three times.

BECK: When you saw Jay Leno and Arnold Schwarzenegger...

NELSON: Is my voice really high?

BECK: No, it's the head cold. Um, it's the beginning of the swine flu.

NELSON: I gotta remember to breathe.

BECK: When you saw Arnold Schwarzenegger on Leno the other day... Did you?

NELSON: No, I didn't.

BECK: Well basically he said, 'I get the message now. I got the message now and we're supposed to'... Now you get the message?

NELSON: No, no, no. It's... Look at, we've had legislators... We are no longer represented. OK? We just aren't. And there's been a political fight. There's been a pluralism in our California government, and you certainly see it reflected in the national government, don't you? I mean, people are, people are blaming each other. Nobody's taking responsibility for what they said or what they did. And those people are responsible to us. They were elected. This is a democracy. It's a republic. My God!

BECK: Thank you for saying we're a republic.

NELSON: No, we are a republic, and that means that we need to be represented. So we're not being...Listen, I'm not gonna pay... I'm not gonna pay anymore money. What these people are asking me to do...

BECK: You're seriously saying I'm not gonna, you're not gonna...

NELSON: No, I'm asking Glenn Beck to promote this. I'm saying it personally. But I'm asking you...

BECK: No, I know. Are you saying you personally won't pay income tax anymore?

NELSON: I'm really thinking about it, Glenn, because as a fiscally responsible grandfather, there are programs that they're asking me to fund that I refuse to fund. If the veterans coming back are not getting what they deserve, those people that have served, they've put themselves in harm's way. If my children, my grandchildren, and my great-grandchild who's about to be here -- thank you, grandson -- is not going to be educated properly then I'm through with it. You know, I'm not gonna spend money on these things that your asking me to spend...

They should be allowed to go bankrupt. What happened...? We are a capitalistic society. OK. I go into business. I don't make it. I go bankrupt. They're not gonna bail me out.

I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope and they gave me encouragement and they gave me a vision. And that came from my education. So, to me, you know, going back to California, and the hedge fund, 'cause we're no longer a state, I just feel like going after our kids, our education, and the most valuable people we have on the planet, teachers... I just gotta tell you I'm so sick and tired of it. I'm just sick and tired of it. And I'm old enough now to have been in the business 45 years. They can't fire me.

Coach is pissed.

I can relate.

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