Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:33 PM 3/10/2001 -0500, Austin Franklin wrote: >Also, because there is no tort reform >as of yet, lawyers are allowed to sue for ridiculous things...and are >awarded ridiculous compensation for such. > Now, that statement both is hurtful to me, and is statistically meaningless. The "ridiculous compensation" you speak of might involve 50 or 100 attorneys a year, out of a US population of some 200,000 or so attorneys. And most attorneys (2/3? 1/2?) are making less than $60,000 a year. I haven't paid income tax in the past three years, though THIS year will be slightly different. (Go, Bush! Tax Cut, Tax Cut, Rah, Rah, Rah!) I would imagine that my average income over the past decade has been less than the majority on this List. But, I seem able to make ends meet and I seem able to help people and I seem able to pay off some dramatic old debt (NONE of it generated by buying Leica: I had a former partner file bankruptcy in 1990, and I got stuck with HER debt as well as mine). But, please, don't start picking on lawyers again. I really am sensitive on the issue. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!