Sen. Obama's $250,000 figure is just plain disingenuous.

Full disclosure: I'm no expert. However, I owned a "small business." I created jobs. I paid taxes. I followed all the rules all the laws and do you know what happened? Let me tell you as briefly and simply as I can.

Did you notice the tense of the word I used earlier? I "owned" a small construction business. The defining reasons we didn't make it is because we refused to hire illegal aliens (trust me I had the chance to and could have paid LESS than min wage as so many businesses do) so our payroll was high. This is why I also have such strong opinions about why illegal aliens lower our wages and ability to grow businesses and jobs. But I will spare you from that discussion. I also had to pay unbelievably high state and federal taxes.

You see, I had a sub-chapter S corp. This meant that my company's income was reported on my personal taxes. Most "small businesses" are like this.

So the $250,000 figure that Sen. Obama and Sen. Biden refer to is just plain disingenuous.

My company, in our first year, made in the six figures. Yep, that's right. That income was reported on my personal taxes. Meaning if my company had made $250,000 or more I would be getting Sen. Obama's tax increase and apparently would have had nothing to worry about because I "could afford it." Frankly that's laughable when you look at the facts.

Now, we can go round and round about this but I hope you can all see that $250,000 doesn't mean your rich and it absolutely DOES include MOST small businesses (especially since most are sub chapter S corp). But that means you have to be upfront and honest about these facts and they have not been. They are even distorting this issue in regards to "Joe the plumber" and his question that lead to Sen. Obama being perhaps a little do candid about his "spread the weath around" philosophy.

Did I personally make six figures....absolutely not. In fact we had to lay off jobs and eventually close our business because we simply could not afford to stay in business if we were going to be honest and follow the laws (i.e. illegal aliens) and then get taxed to death each quarter/year.

So forgive me if I find Sen. Obama's figures not only misleading but a flat out lie meant to distort the facts and play class warfare. There are a lot of people who don't realize what I have shared because they haven't owned a small business. Those of us who have know that Sen. Obama's tax plan will not create jobs, it absolutely will destroy them.