I own a small business and it frustrates me that the harder I work the more penalized I become. I share in your anger...and yes...I own a gun as well.

• 2 weeks ago

Aw shucks...thanks.

• 2 weeks ago

So true. Having the team involved really ads a sense of togetherness, belonging, and accountability.

• 2 weeks ago

Congratulations Guys! Nice videos by the way.

• 2 weeks ago

Let me be clear. I did not like either candidate for President as I supported Ron Paul - an individual that I believed had a viable solution to fixing the tax problems.

Barack Obama talked at length about spreading the wealth around. Hence my term "redistribution of wealth policy." Mr. Obama stated, "... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." To be sure, I would love for everyone to be wealthy. But I do not find it fair that those who are lazy and do not work are rewarded by those of us who do.

When I referenced the negative contribution rate I was referring to an IRS statistic:
The bottom 40% of Americans by income had, in aggregate, an effective tax rate that’s negative. Meaning, 40% of Americans received more than they gave in. In the same report, it stated that "The top 10% paid 70% of the total income tax. And the top 1% paid almost 40% of the total income tax." I am not rich but I aspire to be so one day. I wish people, in general, would stop saying phrases like "tax the rich" and "they need to pay their fair share." You know as well as I do that the only people hurt by that kind of rhetoric is the working middle class (of which I am a card carrying member).

Thomas Jefferson stated that, "We will cease to function as a Republic when you take from those who produce and give to those who don't."

I do not care one iota about the Republican or Democrat party. I care about my wonderful country and her current state of disarray. You can't blame Bush for it all. Congress controls the money and they are a Democrat majority. Mr. Obama made a lot of promises and his policies are going to cost us more in taxes and in effect hurt the very people he proposed to help. We will not start doing better as a country, on the whole, until we stop bickering about the right and the left, Democrat and Republican and start focusing on the correct and what is good for America. Partisanship be damned! Both sides aided in getting us where we are today and it will take a united effort to get us out of this situation.

• 3 weeks ago