Annual Income
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I didn't say I was proud of not having a High School dipolma, I should have gotten mine over 30 years ago, just never needed one, I made sure my kids got one and put them in college, now days you need one and more, in my day, it was no big deal, not having one has never stop me from getting ahead of most people who have there Masters Degree
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As stated above, in CA $100k for a household is near poverty. That's typically both partners working a $50k/year job and seeing each other in the morning for a half hour and the evening for an hour plus weekends when they sleep in all day to recover from the work week...sounds like wage slavery to me!
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One might note that my avatar on another board says exactly that: Wage Slave...
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It's sad that so many of us are like that; the single wage earner is a thing of the past, and unfortunately, the schools are "expected" to raise the kids because mommy and daddy work a full time job AND "overtime" (probably exempt from overtime, as well!), just to make ends meet. IMO it's got an extremely negative impact on our country and society as a whole.
Another thing that sucks is the way that the feds don't take into account cost of living indexes when taxing you. The alternative minimum tax, for example, will start dinging almost EVERYONE once they hit 100K taxable.
Seems the brain donors who thought up that tax didn't build in any mechanism for inflation and/or regional cost of living indexes.
Or perhaps it was intentional? Hard to tell...
/rant
rant
It's sad that so many of us are like that; the single wage earner is a thing of the past, and unfortunately, the schools are "expected" to raise the kids because mommy and daddy work a full time job AND "overtime" (probably exempt from overtime, as well!), just to make ends meet. IMO it's got an extremely negative impact on our country and society as a whole.
Another thing that sucks is the way that the feds don't take into account cost of living indexes when taxing you. The alternative minimum tax, for example, will start dinging almost EVERYONE once they hit 100K taxable.
Seems the brain donors who thought up that tax didn't build in any mechanism for inflation and/or regional cost of living indexes.
Or perhaps it was intentional? Hard to tell...
/rant
Yeah, but think of all the money you would save on house payments, food, etc.........You can have the best stuff shipped to you and still come out way ahead.
My brother lives in a nice neighborhood in Atlanta and has a 5000+ sq. ft. house that he probably paid less than $500K for. The same house here in a decent neighborhood out in the boonies will probably be twice and triple if it's closer to LA.
My brother lives in a nice neighborhood in Atlanta and has a 5000+ sq. ft. house that he probably paid less than $500K for. The same house here in a decent neighborhood out in the boonies will probably be twice and triple if it's closer to LA.
