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Some of them work for corporations that also don't pay taxes.
I know a girl whose very wealthy dad died young and left her a fortune when she was 25. She's never had a job in her life. She spends her days watching TV and the stock market, looking for investments that reduce her tax liability.
I used to work for a guy who owned a small retail store. He had grown up on a farm and when he decided he didn't want to go to college, his parents gave him his college fund and he used it to buy this store. A cheaper human being does not exist. He refused to expand his business or do anything to increase his profit because that would increase his tax liability. His parents eventually discovered oil under the fields on their farm and my boss would cheer when the price of gas went up. When his parents died and left him the farm, he sold the store, stopped growing crops on the farm, began collecting agricultural subsidies and now lives off of them and the profits from the oil. He's an incredibly wealthy man who DOES NOT WORK.
What kind of work ethic are these wealthy people passing on to THEIR children?
How about governors who quit halfway through their term of office to go on tour, increasing their wealth? What kind of work ethic is that?
Or motivational speakers who decide to run for president, knowing they have zero chance of getting the nomination, much less winning the general election, and their campaign only serves to increase their speaking fees? What kind of work ethic is that, Newt?
Yep, let's talk about work ethics. You putz.
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