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Originally Posted by RedBaron
I'm sure in the duration of his life he has paid 10k in taxes... you guys aren't covering him. He is just gaming the system a little bit; i'm sure wealthy businessmen do the same. How many of you have kids that go to school and have Pell Grants?
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I paid more that $10,000 in taxes in the first quarter of this year.
My wife and I don't quite fit the profile of the rich liberal in John's outdated fairy tale. Rich liberals don’t even fit it. BMW and Mercedes sold over 600,000 cars in the US last year. Chevy only sold 18,000 Volts. I honestly don’t have the data, but I’d bet big money there are more rich liberals driving European luxury cars than Volts. Either that or there aren't many rich liberals in this country.
We make more than John’s $170,000 a year caricature, and we'd like to retire with some of it left after taxes. I've had my share of Mercedes and BMW sedans, and I'm not impressed with luxury cars any more. It doesn't make sense to spend $50,000 for an oil burner and pay 10 cents a mile for fuel when I can get a car that suits my needs for $18,500 and pay 2 cents per mile for fuel. I don't care if it runs on distilled weasel pee, if it costs 80% less, I'm on it. Rich liberals don’t stay rich by needlessly pissing money away.