One of my associates goes to the Caribbean every winter from the second week of January until the end of March. It’s part of his agreement with the company, it’s no big deal.

When I asked how it was that he was able to accomplish that, He explained to me that his wife had an eBay business. And it was all PayPal.

Here is where the story got interesting.

It seems, she spends all of her time shopping thrift stores and rummage sales in the upscale suburban communities of south eastern Michigan.

She focuses on seasonal change over and leather goods, i.e., purses and shoes.

Her cash income is well into six figures.

As a person who pays his fair share of taxes, and doesn’t engage in elaborate schemes to avoid them, my preference is that those transactions are taxable.

It has become pretty obvious to me that the non-tax paying, income earning segment of our national workforce is growing exponentially.

Heck, you can go to the beach nowadays, and you will see entire families rolling coolers along selling bottles of water for two dollars apiece or more. Or the endless parade of restaurants that are cash only, because their computers are down.