A letter from Grandpa.....

[ThrillBill88]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Sisyphus @ Mar 20 2009, 09:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Let me see if I get this straight...

You don&#39;t want to "risk" the $45K cost of training/compensating a new employee because the government "steals" more than half* of your additional incremental "profit" (by definition, revenue generated by that new employee in excess your costs) associated with that new employee???? Unless something is missing from your scenario, you&#39;re still better off economically than you would be if you hadn&#39;t hired this person. Where are you going to get a better ROI on your $45K? Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face...

BTW, does that 12 months of training factor in all of YOUR lost productivity pissing & moaning on the Internet about the raw deal you&#39;re getting???


* Not quite sure how 39% on Corporate Taxable Income > $100K & < $335K (highest current US corporate tax rate I could find) equals = "more than half" but - for purposes of this discussion - I&#39;ll take your world for it...[/b]

Damn. You must have access to Obama&#39;s teleprompter. Are you 45 degrees to the right, or the left? Fact is, some employees work, and some don&#39;t. $45,000 is a hell of a bet - even in Vegas - those of us who own businesses and hire people, understand that risk. And we&#39;re not going to continue to take it when barak redistributes what we earn to the lazy fat asses sitting on the back porch smoking drugs.

[Sysiphus]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ThrillBill88 @ Mar 20 2009, 11:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Damn. You must have access to Obama&#39;s teleprompter. Are you 45 degrees to the right, or the left? Fact is, some employees work, and some don&#39;t. $45,000 is a hell of a bet - even in Vegas - those of us who own businesses and hire people, understand that risk. And we&#39;re not going to continue to take it when barak redistributes what we earn to the lazy fat asses sitting on the back porch smoking drugs.[/b]

I own a business. I understand risk. I also understand the English language. Let me know when you catch up there, sport.

[ThrillBill88]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Sisyphus @ Mar 20 2009, 11:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

II also understand the English language. Let me know when you catch up there, sport.[/b]

Did I write something in "Old English" or Spanish? Let me know when you learn how to read sport.

[Sysiphus]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ThrillBill88 @ Mar 21 2009, 12:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Did I write something in "Old English" or Spanish? Let me know when you learn how to read sport.[/b]

I read just fine. Waiting on something WORTH reading sport.

You&#39;ve been told ad nausea... your style is not how we roll here...

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[TexTushHog]

Let&#39;s see a show of hands. Has a single person here had their taxes raised yet? I didn&#39;t think so.

[Rudyard K]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TexTushHog @ Mar 23 2009, 09:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Let&#39;s see a show of hands. Has a single person here had their taxes raised yet? I didn&#39;t think so.[/b]

Odd. I didn&#39;t see that comment that last few years when everyone was bitch&#39;n about deficit spending.

Guess it wouldn&#39;t have been so clever then, huh?

[CaptainMidnight]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TexTushHog @ Mar 23 2009, 09:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Let&#39;s see a show of hands. Has a single person here had their taxes raised yet? I didn&#39;t think so.[/b]

Did anyone who posted here actually say that his taxes had been raised yet?

I didn&#39;t think so.

Grandpa simply noted in the little story posted by the thread starter that he believes his tax burden will soon rise. Pretty reasonable assumption, don&#39;t you think?

It&#39;s amazing that some people actually believe taxes will only increase for those whose incomes exceed $250K/yr. Have they not heard of the current cap-and-trade proposals? But even those won&#39;t be enough. Next up will likely be a European-style VAT. That is a tax structure that really does collect a lot of revenue (it is, in large measure, the way Europeans finance their lavish welfare states).

I thought it would be a long time before we saw a president more profligate than the big-spending George W. Bush, or a congress more reckless and irresponsible than the DeLay-led congress of a few years ago, but it now looks like we may have both.

Somebody&#39;s going to have to pay for all this largesse. Most of the burden will be borne by the middle class, not the "wealthy."