Super Bowl 4K fail

[RolloTheGreat]

You have more to give than I do Rollo, you and Ben can give first!

I've mentioned this before, I work in distribution. I am *very* good at my job. I get sent all over the region I work in to help them fix the problems they have. For the last six weeks I was sent to a location that was having a problem with shrink(industry term for lost product that becomes unsalable). When I arrived at this facility the shrink level was pushing over 2% regularly, occasionally flirting with 3%. I am now back at my home location with their shrink numbers down to 0.3%. What does that have to do with your lust for taxes?

I stopped a price increase out of that location. When you start looking into distribution, that impacts millions of people. You jack up taxes, I quite my job in an instant. That isn't a joke. I don't work fourteen to sixteen hours a day to pay for some lazy fuck to take my money. I won't. I would quit and take a *MUCH* easier job elsewhere and do the lazy ass bum 40 hour a week bullshit. What does that matter? I'm not the only person like me, far from it. Get the tax rates too high and a whole bunch of people who are the best at what they do will stop doing it. Productivity goes down, your prices go up.

Why would we care? I can make less money and be fine. A few less toys for me I can easily deal with. I won't work as hard as I am now and take home shit because some crack head doesn't want to pull his own fucking weight. 

For the record, total cost of the price increase to consumers would have exceeded $50 million in this fiscal year. That's what I do in six weeks above and beyond your run of the mill employee. Have fun paying more, no skin off my back.

In some ways we are brothers in opinion.

I'm a team lead at a software company, my wife is an accounting department manager. We both make a good salary as people who are "good at our jobs".

If they were to jack up our taxes more to do things like "Oh we must buy cat burglars, dope dealers, and Apoppin a Cadillac HMO, they need good healthcare too!" one of us would quit or cut back to get under the income line for the taxation.

Why would any sane person work to pay for benefits for cat burglars, dope dealers, and Apoppin??

It's easy for guys like GStan to hiss "Selfish!" because they aren't the ones that see big increases, they don't pay much tax anyway. When you're already paying tens of thousands and in the group of people paying 68% of the taxes as it is,"We need more so some other people can choose not to work at conventional jobs or start their own businesses" seems a little batshit crazy.