Quote Originally Posted by CrossLOPER View Post
Well... it's not bad.
You clearly have never lived in New York City, where tax avoidance is a major pastime. If that chart is based on any sort of real numbers, I expect it's a case of $40k in reported income, not counting all of the cash jobs they can do.

Seriously, most of the shops in Brooklyn wouldn't take credit cards or check. They just wanted cash. To which I would usually say, "Hey, I don't like paying taxes either, but I do it. So can you!" Strangely, this never got me beat up.

Another thought on Sam — my brother-in-law spent a decade becoming first a journeyman and then a master plumber. It was a big deal. What exactly is Sam W.'s status among plumbers? Is he an apprentice, a journeyman, a nothing, what?