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Originally Posted by Linderpat
Gotta love this class warfare stuff. A CEO should make as much as he or she can. Period. Same goes for everybody else in this country. It's not a zero sum game - I can make as much or as little as I am capable of, and that is wholly independent of how much or little you make. My only constraint is competition. For the class warfare pinheads, can I get to tell you how much you should make? If you don't like what you are earning, crawl out of your little cubical and do something about it; go somewhere else, or do something else and make more money. Don't decry others making whatever they earn. If they are incompetent, they'll flus h out; they always do. And if you are worried about being part of that flush - MOVE. Don't be a stupid, whiney schmuck who sits back and always says I could've done this or that but for what someone else did to me.
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I worked at a job since I was a junior in high school. I just received a paycheck, and occasional bonus. It was comfortable to know what my paycheck was going to cover, and relax. Then because of many factors mostly digital photography, my industry changed at the core. I had to adapt. The industry changed again, and a few years ago I started my own company with a business partner.
I invested my own money into new aerial digital camera systems, and a ton of computers, and now a Cessna 182T. The government was more than happy to accept the taxes we had to cough up. Lots of taxes. No government help to find clients, and help us work on weekends and late nights for no money, trying to build the business.
Now we are having some limited success, and I see tax bills that are just insane. Just part of making money and having our Uncle Sam as a very expensive burden to support. We will pay our CPA a lot of money to find all the ways possible to keep as much of our money as possible for ourselves. Our partner Uncle just keeps sticking his hand in our pockets.
I could have just relaxed, taken SS retirement and started sucking on the government tit that I have been paying for since I was 16. Instead I started a business so I can pay more in taxes.