Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
It's safe to say there are different levels of successful APs. Some people are very happy and successful getting $40,000 or $60,000 a year being an AP while others need the same amount of income PLUS health and retirement benefits. No one can pass judgment. You do what's best for you and you wish others the best for what they do.

I belong to a big union, SAG-AFTRA, in which there are people who earn $3,000 a year and people who earn $3-million or more to shoot a movie in two months time. What you appreciate is that regardless of the income level they all have talent and they all have their levels of success.

If an AP tells me he is successful earning $50,000 a year without benefits I wish him the best for his success.
Benefits are not free for anyone. If you are the company owner then you pay cash for them. If you are an employee then you pay for them with your labor. None of it is free. Alan, you guys always talk about benefits like it's free candy. It's not. You pay for it.

Alan, here's a question to ponder. Rob says he made 100K for ten years but through creative accounting payed no income tax. Would he have been better off to show a 30K profit and stick it all in a tax free retirement account--which any professional gambler is eligible to do?
Leave it to a slug like mickey to give excuses for being on the government dole and always having been a lazy white man that never worked.

And get your lies straight. I netted about $94k/yr., I wrote almost all of it off using expenses that I would have incurred whether I was a professional gambler or not--thru creative and LEGAL accounting because I was also a writer and consultant--and we certainly did pay income taxes on investment and other income a bum like you'd never comprehend, as well as on my wife's work income.

I can see why you drink. You have this idea that you're some kind of rogue expert on everything gambling, and because you like to fantasize about yourself being a "gambling outlaw" of sorts, you tell yourself the 8 ap's who post here are as impressed with your slew of tall tales as you think they are with kew's spews.

Wise up fool.