re: Why wouldn't this job producing tax structure work?

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and how do the workers make their money?

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They make their substandard wages by working for the owner, who pockets millions while they aren't paid squat.

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No, you're just a nutjob that freaks out about people "aiming their cellphones at you", and thinks the govt is using "chem trails to control people".

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Wow, really? There is nothing nutty about being tired of people aiming their cell phones at you. Zero. Nothing. People do it and it is bullshite. And, chemtrails are a proven fact as you can see them on days when the skies are clear and there is no telling what they are doing when hidden away due to cloud cover.

Don't hijack my thread but the two things you say are "nutty" are facts of life that I see damn near every day.

You're pretty good at this. I wouldn't be surprised if you are also the person behind el Gaucho.

Your dad needs to see a judge about getting an OPC to get you some help.

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Selfish and greedy

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frick you entitled bitch.

My grandfather started life as the son of a sharecropper with dirt floors. He would wake up at 4 am to do the morning chores, go to school, come home and do the afternoon chores, then do homework by candle light. As a senior in high school, he added being a county bus driver to that, even on his lunches he had to go fuel the buses for both high schools in the region. Life was so hard on them that both of his parents died in their early to mid 60s, several years before I was born. They were the only set of great-grandparents I didn't have a relationship with. All the others didn't die until I was in my teens.

He didn't have the opportunity to go to college, so he started off sweeping floors as a clerk for the second largest multi-national conglomeration in the world, at the time. And proceeded to work his way up to VP. After 25 years with the company, the company started to fail because of bad decisions in other industries. So he left and started his own with my uncle. WITHOUT EVER BORROWING A DIME, and within 5 years of opening his doors, their gross sales were over $10m. When he sold his half of the company to my uncle almost 10 years ago the valuation was worth roughly $100m.

He and my grandmother lived in the same house for 56 years, donated millions to churches, missions, non profits, people in need, and countless other places.

I've never even been given a dime of it, and wont until he passes. He once told me that he has it set up in a manner which guarantees MY great-great-great grandchildren will be taken care of, and hopefully a few generations after that. Because he never wants to see his family reduced to the struggles that he had to go through growing.

Did he create jobs? Yes. But did he create enough jobs by what you're describing? Not even close. Even if he did, this next part still stands.

frick you for saying someone like my grandfather is a thief, selfish, greedy, corrupt, and an enemy of society. frick you for acting like he owes the government the bulk of what he earned when it did nothing to help he, or his family, earn a dime of it. And no, infrastructure doesn't count as an argument for government helping. All the government ever did was things like call his accountant on Christmas Eve to tell him he needed to write a check for an extra $75,000 dollars because of some new tax code that had popped up that quarter.

Edit: I know this is a troll, but I wanted to say this anyway. I know there are enough liberals reading this board to make it worth typing out.

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VaBamaMan

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I commend what your grandfather did. But, that is the exception. Do you think the Walton children who are raking in billions did that? Bill Gates?

No one does enough work (as it is not possible) to be entitled to a billion dollars in wealth. No one.

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Bill Gates?

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You mean the guy who changed the entire freaking universe?

god forbid somebody should do something special to make society more advanced.

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Do you think the Walton children who are raking in billions did that? Bill Gates?

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The Walton family and Bill Gates employ thousands, if not millions, more people than my grandfather ever could have dreamed.

Whoever built it decides what to do with their money, and that includes giving it to their children.

The federalist papers are chock full of writings making it clear the forefathers wanted utmost protections on man's right to own property, money included. Madison even goes so far as to say a man's right to own property is identical to free speech.