Thanks for the lecture, Dad.
No problem, son.
1) Don't tell me what to do.
Don't make assumptions about me.
2) If you read the post it is (mostly) about fairness. Yes, I had to take a jab at you personally only because I need that to feel better about myself.
No it's not. It's a bullshit rant about rank and social class. Nothing fair about it. And believe me, I can jab just as much as you if not more. Think long and hard before you want to engage me in that kind of battle.
I especially like how you end this post with a long whiny bitch about how you make horrible life decisions (living in NYC on an unstable $14/hr).
And you omit the "freelance part". Wow, and it was already typed out for you and everything. Lemme guess, that part landed in the blind spot in your brain and you jumped to making yet another bad assumption about me? Silly son, you'll learn not to do that over time.
What you don't know is that I own a small business on the side. The day job is there to make steady money while I develop the other.
Do you see the moral dilemma with this statement? You can't just tax away everything somebody has because they make more than you.
Bullshit. Before I decided to go into business for myself, I did have a full time job that paid me a great salary back during the dot com boom. I made more money and I owed more in taxes in April. However, I had more money throughout the year to take care of my necessities and still get many of the things that I want.
So, who's being the whiny bitch now, son? Just because you're a prejudicial miser who thinks you're "entitled" to keep every single dime you make (or steal) doesn't make you exempt from your own responsibilities.
Right now rich people carry almost all the tax burden.
Boo hoo!
You still get to drive on their roads,
I don't own a car. You'd be silly to do that if you lived in Manhattan. :biggrin1:
send your (adopted) kids to their schools,
I have no children of my own. And I know the conditions with many public schools because I'm a product of one. If it's "your" tax dollars putting my nieces and nephews through school, then I can file complaints with YOU in regards to their horrible conditions, lack of modern learning materials, overcrowded classrooms, lack of security, the constant financial cuts in after school programming, and yes the cafeteria food does suck.
You want to wear this title and try to rub it in the face of someone? Be prepared to take your "share" of the responsibility and have answers. If you're not willing to, then shut it.
and use their police force; but you don't have to pay for it. Look at that link I posted earlier. 97% of income tax revenues are paid by the top 50% of wage earners.
Uh oh... the prejudicial miser is attempting math. Let's see where this goes.
You can't just keep taxing them till they have nothing left then say "don't cry to me, I make less than you." Your tax burden at $14/hr should be $0; unless you are doing something horribly wrong.
Yep. MATH FAIL! I knew this was coming! LOL!!
Listen, moneybags, at $14/hr, before taxes, that would be a little more than $29K a year. That puts me above the poverty line and firmly in the lower, middle class. I do pay my share of taxes every year through my day job. I have no children or dependents. My tax burden is higher because of it and that does result in me getting taxed more every paycheck. And no, it doesn't all get returned to me at the end of the year but I do claim less exemptions so that more is taken from me per check. That ensures me a refund every April, but that's due to an overpayment of tax throughout the year. NOT a reimbursement of every tax dollar I've paid out. My burden is NOT $0, Einstein. But your stance in this argument is.
What's next? Should we grab the rulers and see who has a bigger dick here? I don't care if you make more money and pay more taxes than me. As I continue to make more, I'll be paying more myself. You'd be a fool if you think I wouldn't want to make more money and assume the responsibilities that come with it.
What you are saying is, from a moral standpoint, that you deserve some portion of peoples income (those richer than you) to pay for the services you need to survive, but you won't be contributing because you want to 1) make bad life decisions, and 2) follow your dreams.
Such a feeble minded soul to assume that I'm making bad life decisions. And on what? My bank account? Wow, son... you DO have a lot to learn.
I know what I need in order to be happy, and that has nothing to do with any income that comes from the rich. I don't want what they have. If I can generate the money I had back when I was climbing the corporate ladder through my own small business than I would be perfectly happy. I could take care of the things I need and get everything that I want. And that dollar total is nowhere near what a "rich" person wants because all they want is more.
Get that, son? In my life and my finances, it about MY happiness. Not the acceptance of a socially ignorant person such as yourself who only uses money as the benchmark towards success.
But those making more than you should have to give up what they have earned by 1) making better life decisions, and 2) foregoing one's dreams. Fair is fair, they work just as hard as you so they should get to keep the same percentage of their income as you do.
Do they?

Let's not assume that all people who have all the money worked hard to get it because you and I both know that isn't always true. Many people are born in this world with money. Others win it. Others lie, cheat & steal along the way and cause financial ruin to others in order to pad their own pockets. IMO, that's not work. Then again, I am talking to a silly child who has done nothing but make sweeping generalizations about the rich and the working class since you've engaged this dialog with me.
Dear, I wouldn't presume to know your life, as you shouldn't presume to know mine.
But you already made a presumption with your first post addressed to me. My post wasn't targeted at anyone specifically. Like I stated before it was a silly, sarcastic joke and YOU are the only one that didn't get it. I know damn well that nobody "with money" would switch places with someone with less. That was the whole point of making the statement. However, you thought it was an insult on YOUR personal beliefs and now you're here trying to tell me to know my place in the world and stop acting like a bitch.
Ask yourself... who's the one whining and bitching in this thread? Me? That's not my reflection in your mirror. Go wash your face and let me know what you see, OK?
P.S. Telling people to know their place is a sure way to paint yourself as an egotistic asshole.
So why did you bring it up first? Or did you forget that you typed this line when you addressed me:
Otherwise accept your position without bitching about how those who chose a different path need to give up the benefit of their decisions.
Trust me, son... I know exactly where I am and where I've come from. And it doesn't need interpretation from someone like you who makes sweeping, prejudicial generalizations of those who make less money than others. I've been called a lot worse than "asshole" on this thread, so to receive that comment from one of the prejudicial variety doesn't phase me in the least.