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I also pay 100% of my own healthcare, have to fund my own retirement and if I want a vacation, I have to stop working and lose the revenue from being out of the office. I don’t get sick days or 2 weeks of paid vacation every year.
You want to write off those things? Start a business…or don’t…but don’t bitch and complain about the ‘unfair’ tax breaks business owners get until you’ve been one.
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Meadandale, you and I do different things for a living. You are a business owner, which brings some positives and some negatives. You could choose to divide everyone up into the industries they are in – financial, entertainment, manufacturing…. I am sure each has its own positives and negatives. Does that mean that people in some of those industries should pay less taxes than someone earning the same income who works in another industry? I think the burden of justifying that sort of differentiation falls squarely on the person asking for special treatment. With that perspective, I think you’d have a hard time convincing the majority that business owners need to pay less taxes on the same (real) income as non-owners. Everyone thinks they are special, so it’s best to make no one special.
