Hi Lannie. No, I am not earning over $1M — far from it.

Life choices indeed — kids are what destroyed me financially. That is why I cannot retire. Oh well.

I generally agree that there are too many super rich people. But we must be careful. If one earns a million dollars in a year, that does not make them rich. Suppose it is the only year in which they earn that, and that earning must sustain them for the rest of their life? I am actually trying to start a business with someone, and I hope — hope — to earn up to a million or two in the next few years — but it is for my retirement. I don’t want it to all be taken away.

Government is famous for trying to put people into boxes and causing unintended consequences as a result. The blunt instrument of law.

I am somewhat angry at things, because were it not for the high tax rates as they are, I would not have any trouble. The government has been taking from me my whole life and giving little back. I would like to see them get out of the way. I don’t trust them to solve any problems that I care about. To me, the Federal government is a menace. I don’t want more of it.

I support a strong social safety net, but not from the Federal government. I would like to see the US be more like the European Union, with independent states that each have their own social systems, with a unifying legal, immigration, and defense framework. That is how the US was supposed to be from the beginning, but we have strayed from that, and now nothing works — the Federal government is a gridlocked disaster and there is little hope of remedying that.