We work hard. We have to or we'd sink completely. Between taxes and regulations, we are operating on a fraction of our potential.
Imagine a dollar worth an actual dollar, total(city, State, Federal, sales) annual taxation under 10% of your gross income, and no Alphabet Agencies coming at your business from multiple directions with the uniform goal of making it harder for you to stay in business...
Rich? Bet your ass we would be... Instead, yes... We are struggling.
“We work hard. We have to or we’d sink completely. Between taxes and regulations, we are operating on a fraction of our potential.
... Rich? Bet your ass we would be... Instead, yes... We are struggling.”
Now just a day or two ago, there was an article here about “saving” Social Security by raising the retirement age so folks will have to keep working until age 75 or 80:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2936245/posts
Sounds great, eh?
Enjoy the struggle!
P.S. If the Pubbies really, really think they can win over Americans to their side by promoting such stupid ideas as raising the retirement age much beyond what it is now, they really ARE going to be strugglin’ in the years to come...