... you'd think he'd be able to explain taxes without using a tired, old email.
Ten people go to a bar.
Five of them are kicked out because they're women and it's an exclusive "men's only" club, like Augusta National Golf Club.
Of the remaining 5, only two can afford the exorbitant prices.
They split the bill evenly and gyp the waiter.
Or
Ten men go to a restaurant.
One of them is the boss, the other nine are his employees and they're there to work.
4 work in the kitchen, the other 5 work in the dining area, the boss sits in the office watching FOX. He gets scared, calculates how much money he'll lose based on all the lies Limbaugh is spewing, and decides that he can only maintain the lifestyle he has become accustomed to by firing 3 of the guys just as the lunch rush begins.
2 remain in the kitchen, 3 work their asses off trying to please the customers and the last 1 tries desperately to clear the table for the next patrons, wash all the dishes that are piling up and keep the trash from accumulating.
Pleased that the workers are "more productive" the boss goes back to his office to finish listening to the radio while figuring out a way to "make more money."
Okay, okay, how about this:
The mayor of a town of 100 people convinces them God told her to build a sports complex.
12 of the townspeople are unemployed. There are 9 businesses that employ 68 of the townsfolk.
The businesses (and the number of employees, including the owner/manager) are:
* a car dealership (7)
* a gas station/garage (7)
* a restaurant & bar (10)
* Subway sandwich shop (8)
* a medical clinic (8)
* a grocery store (12)
* local consignment shop/beauty salon (6)
* bait & tackle shop (4)
* FOX radio affiliate (6)
Two other "businesses" in the town--the school district/library and the post office--are government run and employ the remaining 8 as well as people from out of town. The mayor's office also employs 6 people including the mayor, her husband, their son, 3 friends and 2 lobbyists from out of town.
The last business is the church which pays minimum wage to 6 people and their witch-hunting Bishop who gets what's left.
The 12 who are unemployed can only shop at the grocery store (using government food stamps) and also give a meager pittance to the church because the town is known for its hugh meth problem.
No one can afford to buy any new cars, so the car dealership closes, putting 7 people out of work.
Now that fewer people have cars, the gas station/garage lets 3 employees go, bringing the total of unemployed to 22.
Those 22 people no longer have any disposable income forcing the local consignment shop/beauty salon and bait & tackle shop to reduce their payrolls to just the owner, adding 8 more to the unemployment rolls.
With so many people of of work, the restaurant reduces their hours and lets half their staff go, adding 5 more to the unemployment total. With fewer people working and covered by insurance, the clinic lets 4 people go.
Bringing the grand total of unemployed to 39 out of 100 towns people.
However, the mayor is bringing construction jobs to town with the building of the sports complex. Everyone is excited, because this means work. Or so they thought.
The company the mayor awards the contract to build the sports complex is from out of town and hires no local people. The contractors live in their own trailers and eat only at the Subway, or cook what they buy at the grocery store.
The bait & tackle shop closes for the winter. Later the owner decides to move to Canada.
Eventually all the other businesses including the Subway and the clinic close, except:
* the grocery store, which is now only open 3 days a week
* the church, which will gladly accept donations of any size to help members of the community
* and finally, the consignment shop, because the mayor shops there.
The people who had government jobs at the school, library or post office move to get away from all the raping and meth.
Everyone left in town receives government assistance, a portion of which goes to pay for the $2 million sports complex, the local economy collapses and the mayor takes a trip around the country looting Neiman Marcuses.
The End
I think that's better.