David, you have founded several companies and employed hundreds of people, and that may be great as long as those you employed were paid a decent living wage and did not have to also rely on public assistance in order to make ends meet. Did you provide healthcare benefits and paid time off or was attending to an illness, family emergency, meeting with a teacher or a school play a crap shoot for the employee? Did they have an OSHA safe working environment? Were they provided with the adequate tools and resources to perform their jobs safely and efficiently? Did they suffer from repetitive motion or weight handling injuries which you fought workers comp benefits? Was your and your sticker holders' compensation disproportionately high relative to the wages provided by you? Did your employees have to work two or three jobs to make ends meet?

There are many business owners who reap a lot of rewards and pay little in taxes as well as low wages and no benefits to their employees. If your employees depend on any form of public assistance or need to work to jobs or more to make ends meet, you are not paying your fair share as an employer and perhaps not paying your fair share in taxes, personal or business.