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It seems you are the one spouting dogma. I have been in that six figure income bracket, W-2 type, and I sure paid more than 20% federal income tax. The tax code favors passive income compared to the middle to upper middle class wage-earners. That is the reality.

Lower than the billionaire. I was speaking of the $100K-$500K, but the point still stands. People who obtain their income from passive investments pay a lower percentage of their income in taxes, generally speaking.

Regardless of your personal tax situation, it has little bearing on the rest of the 330M people in the US.

Resorting to beating confesses your lack of facts to support you prejudice.

Take the struggling working class out of it and look at the actual middle class making $100K-$500K and re-run your numbers.

My mistake. I am not up on the new math. When I went to school, 37% (highest income tax bracket) was higher percentage than 20% (highest long term capital gains tax). When did they change that, anyway?

Now we just need to fix the capital gains mess that allows billionaires to pay a lower percent in taxes than their low level employees.

I hear you! Need tax policy favoring income from producing goods and services rather than giving favorable treatment to passive investments.

I went to the Wag-Aero website today only to be redirected to an announcement from Aircraft Spruce that it has acquired Wag-Aero. Consolidation probably inevitable, but not particularly welcome. Hopefully Spruce doesn't end up owned by private equity. Then things could get really tense for GA...

Some things never change. I recall a photo from the Orlando Sentinal (IIRC) from the early '80's, that showed a 172 that had screwed its prop into a hangar door. The caption mentioned that the pilot go out of the plane and left it in gear.

Plane likely was, but the pilot clearly was not. We don't train people to fly in the ice, lest we fear they will. But frequently, as in this case, pilot's without the necessary skill set, ventured in anyway.

If you go over to Sun 'n Fun, look for the Comanchetown tent over on the vintage parking area. They are also at Oshkosh. Two other internet resources for Comanches is the Piper Comanche FB group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/68675657216/) and the Airworthy Comanche Forum...

I don't know where you are located, but off the top of my head, the shops I know that really know Comanches are Aircraft Engineering, Bartow, FL; Heritage Aero, Freeport, IL; Clifton Aero, Clifton, Tx; Webco Aircraft, Newton, KS; Phill-Air, Dover, DE, and Comanche Works (my team) in Blaine, MN...

The truly rich charter so they can take their pets with them.

Pre-buys are necessary, but are a challenge, particularly when you are talking about vintage, complex aircraft. Savvy doesn't necessarily do a very good job with those either. Currently, they don't appear to have anyone that speaks very good Comanche, based on some of the logbook reviews from...

That is a huge loss to the PA-23 family. I hope there is a team to carry on.

Do these changes now mean that an LPV approach is now defined as a precision approach?

By your membership here you establish that you live in a different reality than most. As do we all.

Without a middle class, democracy will die. Only the middle class really cares about democracy. The wealthy are safe even in a dictatorship. The truly poor are more focused on survival.

I have a BS from ERAU. Most of the credits came from having all my ratings already, and an A&P which was gained at ERAU. The rest of the degree was as it was titled, BS! But having been a product of the public school system at a time when they were experimenting with teacherless classes, I...