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I kid you not, I paid more in income taxes in 2006 than my mother earns, whom I support.

Before we began home schooling, I calculated the taxes, the private school bill, the before and after day care bill, the extra transportation cost... I was a project engineer making $10,000 after costs. I quit.

Because of home schooling, my kids both started calculus before they were thirteen (one was eleven). The older one is about to finish MIT's biology text. She's on the board of directors of the local community concert association. They are currently about to starty a paid research job with a peer-reviewed academic paper as the end product. They're Thirteen and fourteen.

I promise you, when these kids are ready to leave for college, the universities will be falling all over themselves to get them. There will be scholarships.

As it is, I'm free to pursue my inventions while I teach these outstanding young people. My guess is that we'll be money ahead for having made this decision, without the pain and strain that our old lifestyle was inflicting, which could have led to a very expensive divorce.

I promise you, when these kids are ready to leave for college, the universities will be falling all over themselves to get them. There will be scholarships.

You've got the right idea. Work the system. Let the parents of the lazy pay.

California's masses paid for my children's post secondary education and both are now productive members of our society.

The formula is simply. If you learn they will pay.

That is all truly great about your children, but what does any of that have to do with the fact that low income people do not pay ‘income taxes’ or that many get the earned income credit from the IRS?

I still stand by my sentiment that people who play the lottery thinking that they might win are are not too bright or are bright but never took the time to understand statistics.

I have seen it in several states where they advertise things like “you have to play to win” and “somebody has to win”. All of these are valid statements, but I also know that I truly have at least 3x more probability of getting struck by lightning then winning the lottery!