A reader writes:
The reporter interviewing Fleming was economically illiterate. Fleming is a Subway Sandwich franchisee. She started by pointing out that his businesses "brought" him more than $6 million. He corrected her by noting that number is correct except from it he has to pay 500 employees, lease costs, benefits, taxes, food costs, etc. The number is the gross revenue from all the stores.
He then says that what he has left over from all that money is about 10%, or $600,000. Then he says "after feeding my family", which seems a metaphor for not just feeding them but providing for them in total, he has "maybe $400,000 left over" – and that is where the quote was cut off.
But what he said next was "with which to invest in new locations, upgrade my locations, buy more equipment, all of it." All those things employ people – isn't that what we want to do? Or are we so fixated on the idea that he doesn't deserve more money from his hard work and capital investment that he should simply surrender to the government more of what is his?
The Dish 