I don't think the issue is the tax issue at all. I am sure he can adapt to whatever the tax code is at the time. He has his facts wrong I am sure..as do most people, even tax experts, when discussing taxes on the cuff.

I think the issue is whether we as a people, like we the people, have the right to collectively try to destroy this man without enough evidence that he needs to be destroyed..and some people do need to be put down, no doubt about it. Reading the comments here and stuff in blogs and editorials is painful. There are probably hardworking men and women in your communities with no license, expired licenses, trying to meet license requirements that vary from block to block as seems to be the case in Ohio..and here we sit trying to crucify him.

I talked to my "plumber" this morning at McDonald's. He said the poor guy is being treated unfairly and he himself is an apprentice and jumping through the hoops is daunting. I hope the union he had signed some sort of apprenticeship request will assist him. It doesn't sound likely but maybe they will.

We do not know, at least I don't, whether this guy is an out and out fraud, which is what he is being called, I believe on this list but it could be elsewhere, or he is an angel of mercy operating legally in the townships he can operate in, helping elderly widows unthaw their pipes in the frozen Ohio winters for half the price of someone with more certifications. I don't know. But unless he is actually hurting someone by working 12 or whatever hour days, I say don't hurt him, and his son, and this could affect his custody arrangement.

I think this is like the chickens in the chicken coop finding a weakness in another chicken and pecking them to death. It is a test of decenty, not someone screwed up over the tax code. mg