C B, the socialist billionaires concern me a great deal less than the other kind. I apologize for the personal comments. We ought to be civil here, and I'll try to be so. What I know about business is not from personal experience except that my investments have done quite well. I do note that corporate profits are record high ,and that makes me understand those companies could pay better wages without hurting themselves. As for taking the public's money, I must have misunderstood; all those years I showed up for work every day and saw my students improve their skills I somehow thought I earned that money. Could you tell how I didn't?
Bill, when I said "invest your own money" I didn't mean the extra one might have being put away for retirement. I mean every last dime you can scrape together to fund your entrepreneurial start up. I mean taking money from your own accounts to make sure your end of the bargain got lived up to.....your employees got their paycheck on Friday.
It's a different kind of thing, embarking on that risk. The risk of starting something. Where your monthly pay is solely dependent on your ideas and what you do each month to make those ideas a reality. Where there is no back stop of the government or union to make sure you can pay your bills and buy food no matter how badly you screw up. Something you will never really understand unless you have lived it.
And if you think the people who do that....who drive the economy and actually create the wealth through their ideas and hard work.....if you don't think they deserve the rewards.....if you don't think they aren't already paying their fair share.....then I would suggest you don't know how it works in the real world.
Yes, there are a small number of people (billionaire types, many who are Democrats....we call them Limousine Liberals up here) who find ways to avoid taxation but there are millions of "millionaires" (probably in the range of 10 million of them in the US right now) whose vision, creativity, hard work and risk taking enables the country to be as rich as it is. They make the jobs. Even yours.
