Bob Klahn -> Tom Walker wrote:
 TW>>>> More of yourt BULL SHIT Bob!!!
 TW>>>> Many a small business are near or Above the $250,000 mark

 BK>>> Gross, maybe, few pay the owner that much profit.

 TW>> MOST small Businesses PAY TAXES on the Gross. They are the
 TW>> SAME as an Individual under the Current TAX LAW. THAT is
 TW>> the Problem! ---

 BK>  Individuals do *NOT* pay tax on the gross, but on the taxable
 BK>  income.

 BK>  Figure it out. To gross $250k/yr he will probably net maybe
 BK>  $50k/yr if he is lucky. That means $200k/yr of business
 BK>  expenses. If he employs anyone that would be probably
 BK>  $75K/yr-$100k/yr in costs per person. Then add cost for the
 BK>  business facility etc.

 BK>  By the time he is done he may pay no income taxes at all.

You don't know what you are talking about.

 BK>  OTOH, he may go broke in short order if he has as little
 BK>  qualification to run the business it seems he has.

 BK>  Oh, the local plumbers union has offered him an apprenticeship.
 BK>  We'll see if he's serious about being a plumber.

Are you saying that he'd have to join a union to become a plumber? That
only after a union apprenticeship he could call himself a plumber?

Your union has you brainwashed well.

Ed

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