crazylegz1975 wrote:
A family of five where the mother works and earns 50k and the father works and earns 50k. Are now going to have to pay an extra 6-9k annually to the leeches.
If you cant see what's wrong with this considering the cost of living you probably aren't even capable of taking care of yourself in the first place.
If you cant see what's wrong with this considering the cost of living you probably aren't even capable of taking care of yourself in the first place.
I grew up in a household where the total income between both my parents combined was about 24k. We had a car, it wasn't the best car, but it got from point A to point B, easily managed the occasional family vacation(once every two years, pretty much), and very rarely required any major repair as my mother took care of it very well. We always had food on the table(good food, home-cooked healthy food), we always had a roof over our heads(and quite the fine house if I do say so myself, spacious living room, large bedrooms, huge basement, good kitchen, a big enough back yard with a good park down the street and a good school around the corner), we always had clothing. My dad is a boat/motorcycle/atv/etc. parts salesman, my mom was first the head tech at a local theater, then did in-home daycare in order to both earn an income, and to be home every day when my brother and I were done school, these days she drives a cab(which isn't the lowlife-type job people tend to assume it is, and pays quite well). There was a short period where we were on welfare(when I was about 7, so, '94ish), but as soon as we didn't need to be, we were off it.
The family that makes 100k gross, and pays, lets say, as much as 50% in taxes(which is terribly unrealistic, and would be worthy of some major investigation into what the @#%^ is happening in that country), is still amazingly well off. The only way you could possibly consider yourself poor even at 50k/year is if you insist on having a lot of stuff you don't need. Does one need a luxury car(or anything that costs from 30k and up) to live well when a car that offers the same level of utility and safety can cost as little as 5k(used) or 10k(new)? Does one need to own a large amount of property to live well? Does one need to be able to keep up with all the current trends to live well? Does one need to own more things than anyone else to live well? Does one need to be better off than someone else to live well? No. The necessities of life do not cost as much as you think, unless you consider the things you need to be the supposed "best" of everything, rather than the stuff that's good enough(or more than good enough). That's the problem with your way of thinking, you think that quality of life is based on how much you can buy, when really its about how you go about living your life. If you can't be happy with a just a bit more than what's necessary, how could you ever be happy with more?
When you make 100k, a deduction of 6-9k, is nothing. 91k/year, sounds like a pretty damn fair deal to me. In the future, lets not try to act like those with thaat kind of money are living terribly at 91k, if they're unhappy with life, then they've made some serious mistakes throughout it.
Oh, by the way I live quite well at a current 17k/year, pretty much debt-free, with more than what I need, thanks for your "concern", but I'm doing just fine.
Edited, Nov 23rd 2012 12:18pm by Driftwood
