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ketsuko
Poor decisions?
More like college loans and a health condition. I guess getting an education with a chronic condition was a poor decision. We should have stayed in our place rather than aspiring to do better. Now, we're saddled with payments to the government out both ends - loan debt and tax burden. Between the two, we live extremely modestly even though we are solidly middle class.
And yes, we pinch every penny and I skip meals, sometimes more than one per day.
Maybe someday, we'll stop paying the student loans, but by then, we'll have Obamacare like a big fat monetary monkey on our backs.
DrEugeneFixer
This is personal for you, I get it, but it's not for me.
DrEugeneFixer
Ketsuko, are you making more than $60,000 a year?
"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
ketsuko
But, you know we're making poor decisions ... it's all our fault that we're losing roughly 47% of our gross to taxation between state, local and federal.
burdman30ott6
Of course it is personal for me, I work hard for my goddamned money!!!! What complete jackass doesn't take it personally when they are robbed?
Exactly the type of answer I would have expected. Why wouldn't an individual who feels entitled to steal money earned by others not also feel entitled to make judgemnets regarding how judiciously those earners are using the remnants of their income left after taxes?
burdman30ott6
Anybody who thinks raising a family on $60k, $70k, or even $80k a year should equal a stacked bank account is a clueless ass.
marg6043
reply to post by DrEugeneFixer
And you have no idea what you are talking about, as obviously you are not a retire marine with a retirement pay and a full time job.
Yes my husband entire retirement pay goes to pay taxes + part of his full time pay check I am not about to tell how much he pays and how much he makes as that is our business, but he pay in taxes more than many people around makes in a year, and we are not even rich or wealthy or neither well off
ketsuko
Well, you know the thought is that everyone should have exactly the same, no matter what they do.
ketsuko
reply to post by DrEugeneFixer
Poor decisions?
More like college loans and a health condition. I guess getting an education with a chronic condition was a poor decision. We should have stayed in our place rather than aspiring to do better. Now, we're saddled with payments to the government out both ends - loan debt and tax burden. Between the two, we live extremely modestly even though we are solidly middle class.
And yes, we pinch every penny and I skip meals, sometimes more than one per day.
Maybe someday, we'll stop paying the student loans, but by then, we'll have Obamacare like a big fat monetary monkey on our backs.