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A combination of professional salaries and investment income over twenty+ years of daily 9-5 work, along with a few late nights here and there (a hazard typical of the industry), boosted us over the $250k threshold, so please don't assume you alone speak for the middle-class millionaire set. I have no idea why you think I'm motivated by guilt.
9-5? With a few late nights tossed in? How many weeks of paid vacation and who paid your health insurance?
Oh, the horror.
I'm a small business owner that folks like you, working the typical 40 hour work week who also most likely NEVER had to pay their own insurance premiums in full and got handed more paid weeks of vacation as the years of service accrued, think I should be taxed higher - when I get none of that "fancy" stuff.
I speak for myself and other small business owners I know who are overlooked yet expected to ante up. Maybe if I made what I did in a year over the course of working 8 hour days, I'd be more generous with other people's money too.
As you were replying to someone who lives in my area, I will say that I can attest that a 5000 sf house on 10 a. here costs well over $300K. What you get for $300K here is 2000 sf (if you're lucky) on <1/4 acre. The hypothetical house you describe would cost several million, if you could find it at all. 10 acre homesites are rare here.
I know where you live - I don't consider where you live off the main-line.
So what's the issue with the poster who lives in your area? No common sense?
9-5? With a few late nights tossed in? How many weeks of paid vacation and who paid your health insurance?
Oh, the horror.
I'm a small business owner that folks like you, working the typical 40 hour work week who also most likely NEVER had to pay their own insurance premiums in full and got handed more paid weeks of vacation as the years of service accrued, think I should be taxed higher - when I get none of that "fancy" stuff.
I speak for myself and other small business owners I know who are overlooked yet expected to ante up. Maybe if I made what I did in a year over the course of working 8 hour days, I'd be more generous with other people's money too.
All medical is a 100% write-off for the self employed.
9-5? With a few late nights tossed in? How many weeks of paid vacation and who paid your health insurance?
Oh, the horror.
I'm a small business owner that folks like you, working the typical 40 hour work week who also most likely NEVER had to pay their own insurance premiums in full and got handed more paid weeks of vacation as the years of service accrued, think I should be taxed higher - when I get none of that "fancy" stuff.
I speak for myself and other small business owners I know who are overlooked yet expected to ante up. Maybe if I made what I did in a year over the course of working 8 hour days, I'd be more generous with other people's money too.
This thread is no longer a conversation about an issue; it's become a very personal and insulting snipe fest. I am partly to blame for that, but I no longer wish to engage or reveal further private details of my life for dissection.
Kat, thank you for coming to my aid. I appreciate your on-line friendship, but I think it's time that I return to my real life and bring my part of this nonsense to an end. Best regards...FC.
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