Ernie didn’t freeze to death. He died in a hospital after falling and breaking his arm.

“If you go back to my first post on this new blog I talked about one of my neighbors, Ernie.

Ernie passed on a couple of days ago. I don’t know the exact date. It doesn’t matter. He froze to death behind Rite Aid pharmacy in the middle of the night. Rest in peace.

This seems a bit brutal to me. A few days earlier I was incensed by outrageous examples of welfare fraud in my home town and when you add what I have been through in the past 1/4 of my life dealing with bigger business’ and seeing a lot of scumbaggery with tax cheats and people who leverage civil servants to become private business servants. I really just thought that if you own a business having access to the community, use of the public conduits, meeting places and utilities (sorry I am mistaken, they used to be public) you should be happy to make yourselves available to help the managers of the infrastructure support the cause.

You have to keep in mind that the majority of business taxes are on property and income. The money you invest in growth and goods is not your tax burden. (this is conversation, not advice and I may be wrong BTW).

So, if you own a big biz, you don’t even personally pay the corporate taxes. You pay personal income taxes. You can pay yourself what you want or go elsewhere just like the rest of us but it’s your opinion that the profits the company earned should not be taxed so you basically change things to eliminating your support of the network that you absolutely rely on for business. You have a shit load of stuff but you can’t peel off a few bills to keep the old crippled people from freezing to death?

When corps were first formed they paid big profit taxes. The reason is they were all shocked how much money was made when large groups of people pooled their resources and powered growth. This goes way back to the original concept. Towns were incorporated also and there were statutes than mentioned that corporations were supposed to be good. The concept was sold to the public on that basis.

Everyone who worked or invested had been paid and the company grew and the bank account grew now stop being so selfish. Ernie could have used his share that he never got”