Originally Posted by
Albief15
But don't begrudge the successful out there--it wasn't just handed down to very many people.
I think the problem here is that we are talking about us as pilots. We are hardly wealthy yet as a group we tend to defend those that really are, and those that really are wealthy are just laughing all the way to the bank. To argue that the wealthy do not have an advantage is crazy. Even the
WSJ disagrees with that premise.
It is not about those making $250,000/year, or even $300k, it is about those earning a few $million who are getting a real advantage and now pay virtually no taxes.
That said, yes, we all worked hard, but some a lot harder than others. Some had to start out really poor and made it, others really were born into upper middle class, never had to worry about anything, daddy paid for their flying lessons and college, etc. Are you really arguing that someone that had to work their own way to pay for their own roof over their heads, plus college and flying, or, if lucky, got a pilot slot in the military, worked no harder to get where they were than the kid who's dad paid for all their college and flying lessons, buying their hours until the kid could get hired?