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Originally Posted by Gearbanger 101  Jealous....of course I would be.....who wouldn’t? Why should the high-enders get all the breaks? Do you honestly think they’re pulling down that kind of dough because they work harder than you and me or anyone on the bottom?
The kind of jobs that these people are working to make that kind of income is largely due to where they’re from, who they are and whom they know. It’s got little to do with what they know or the level of competency or dedication to doing their job they have. These privileged few have been getting breaks their entire lives and the last thing they need is to be rewarded for it?
So no....I haven't any sympathy for them. I know people who work twice as hard only to make half as much. If you’re making that kind of scratch it’s kind of like owning a high end sports car. If you afford to drive a Ferrari, you can certainly afford to maintain it! |
WOAHHHHHHHHH!!!
Hold on a minute... your post has so much wrong with it it's not even funny..
I know a few families making that kind of money.
One is a friend I went to school with he worked hard and studied hard and he is a lawyer now and married a pharmacist they are well over 250k
another guy I know makes that on his own, he has a large independent auto repair shop this guy trained me and I was his apprentice at a honda dealer back in the mid 90's.. you want to know how he got to own a large shop that earns him well over 250k a year clean..
really really hard work is the answer, he worked 6 days a week at the honda dealer open until close.. sometimes 16 hours on nights we stayed open til midnight and then on sundays he did side jobs until sundown.
he produced over 180+ hours a week in billed labor and made over 150k a year as a dealer tech back in the 90's thats how he put himself in the position today to own his large shop and the building it's in outright with no loans..
this guy worked so hard that now not even 50 years old he can't open his hands fully he is hunched over and is pretty much crippled.. But back in the day he was by far the hardest working and best tech I have ever seen.. thats how he is able to have multiple vacation homes now for his family to enjoy..
you want to know why I don't have the stuff these friends of mine have today..
1. I did not study in school like my lawyer friend.. While he was busting his ass in HS, collage and law school I was busy playing video games and drinking.. So should I be surprised that they are better off than me today..
2. I don't have a tenth on the work ethic of the guy i know with the shop.. he will work circles around me crippled, in his sleep and with his hands tied behind his back. I never even see that guy even take a break. he ate with a tool in his hand.. I don't have that drive but at least I can admit it..
Most of us either don't have the talent, education or drive to earn that kind of life.. I don't have the drive I am far to lazy to do it in the blue collar world and i don't have a special talent or education to do it in another way so i live the sub 100k life most of us have.
thats not the governments fault or rich peoples fault or societies fault that I will never be rich, it's my own fault for decisions I made back when i was in school and it's m fault today for being to lazy to become rich the hard way..
So please not everybody with money is a trust fund baby who got breaks there whole life..
Funny thing is most trust fund babies tend to be liberals, I guess if you don't have to work for your riches it's easy to be a communist and try to tax the hell out of people who are actually working for their riches..
Ohh one funny thing about taxes..
In the great socialist state of massachusetts we have a optional tax rate.. you can elect to pay extra income tax over the percentage massachusetts steals from us at gun point already to give to illegal alien criminals and crackwhores for free health care, free food and cheap housing.. while i a natural born american citizen pay 70 dollars a week for a single plan for heath insurance with tons of co pays and I pay for my food and my housing.. BTW if i cancel my health insurance I have to pay a fine on my taxes next year since it's law in the soviet socialist republic of massachusetts to have health insurance that I have never used in 4 years.
do you want to know how much the communist politicians ( all our congressmen and our senators in this fine commonwealth) paid extra...
0
thats right 0
But they want me and all the other suckers that still live here to pay a higher percentage..
We even had a ballot question 4 years ago and a large majority voted to abolish the state income tax and they told us to **** off and we still have the income tax and the morons that live here vote in the same thieves every election..