re: So I think I'm becoming that proverbial conservative with a brain

When you pay all that and still have to write a check to The United States of America on 4/15.

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PI lawyers


That explains a lot.

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I'm a PI lawyer and I'm pretty conservative

Are there many like you?

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So the government is like the mafia in your opinion? I guess that's a pretty good comparison.

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That's EXACTLY what it is. A protection racket.

I didn't go straight to college after HS.

I worked full time as a front end manager for a large supermarket.

Do you want to know how to instantly become conservative?

Be a front end manager with a family working in a large supermarket.

Liberals love to make fun of conservatives and act like reality isn't reality.

But, I worked in the grocery business for 8 years........and yeah. That shite will make you conservative in a goddamned hurry.

One can get to about 50% pretty easily. Between 40 and 50 is upper, upper middle class in my opinion. About 40% federal, and at least another 10% in taxes. At least another 10% not counting property taxes, user fees, sales taxes etc.

It's getting to the next income level that is extremely difficult. The income level where you can start to attempt to make a significant amount of your income in capital gains.

This is where the wall is. If you find an easy to break down this wall, let me know.

Back to taxes. It confuses me why when someone gets to 40-50% out of gross income, excluding all other taxes, which usually involves taking risk, and not a small amount of risk, if that someone then figures out a way to push it even further, the consensus by elected officials recently has been to punish him. In additional to the risk this usually involves, often times if also includes growing the economy, not the least of which is meeting a payroll, and providing jobs.