I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
With 6 kids, I still pay off my student loans. I still pay my mortgage. I drive a used minivan. If you think I'm living high off the hog, I've got one paycheck.
I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA.
I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.
I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.
I went through all my electric bills, the water bills, the phone bills, elevator contracts, and I found enough wasteful spending without reducing any programs anywhere, without reducing any services, I found enough wasteful spending to pay my entire salary for three years.
I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.
I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.
I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.
I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.
My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars. And I bought a red Corvette for $45,000 dollars. I'm thinking, 'I've got 45 grand left!' Taxes didn't even come into my equation. At the end of the first year of making 90 grand I was 25, 30 in the hole. We live in this baller, spend-money culture.