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You should start another thread. This one is about a well-educated, well-paid, man and his wife complaining because the government is not paying them to raise their children. Please try to stay focused - or at least admit you've got nothing to add to the topic at hand.Show me where a retired couple, with an income of forty thousand a year counting social security, pays a dime in income taxes, or STFU.
LMAO, who are you trying to fool. OK, single individual, getting by on 40 grand, mostly because the minimum required distrbution is pushing them into a taxable situation. Well, how are they making 25 grand on their minimum required distribution. That means the value of their IRA at 71 is over two hundred grand. And yet they are drawing less than $1500 a month in Social Security. That is just not anywhere close to reality. I mean know this, this is what I do for a living. This is how I raised six kids. I have forgotten more about RMD's, Social Security income, and retirement planning than you will ever know. I have tens of millions of dollars under management, hundreds of clients who value my expertise, and your scenario is just plain off the wall STUPID.
You're doing a great job and I am 95% in agreement with everything you say in this thread but, if I may (I'm going to do it anyway), this would be a more correct way of putting it:You’re impossible. I’m talking about the hardships to the MIDDLE CLASS that is being caused by Biden’s liberal handout policies. You’re so stuck on the “rich” that you can’t even comprehend what is going on here.
People need to take jobs and stop assuming they are entitled to other people’s money.
Did you catch what he admitted? He WAS the liberal who had six kids, and then took as much as he could from other people in the form of government assistance - including food stamps. Shame on him. A responsible person would have chosen beteeen:You should start another thread. This one is about a well-educated, well-paid, man and his wife complaining because the government is not paying them to raise their children. Please try to stay focused - or at least admit you've got nothing to add to the topic at hand.
Absolutely. In fact, i just wrote that very thing a moment ago. People need to either a) have the stay-at-home take a job (if they want to maintain the higher lifestyle) or b) lower their lifestyle to where it fits to a single-income.You're doing a great job and I am 95% in agreement with everything you say in this thread but, if I may (I'm going to do it anyway), this would be a more correct way of putting it:
People need totake jobslive within their means and take personal responsibility for their own actions and choices and stop assuming they are entitled to other people’s money.
Taking a job is one possible solution but it's not the only path for a family like that in the OP.
that Republicans have constantly championed.Massive handout? This cut pales in comparison to the handouts given to multinational corporations, billionaires and the wealthy elites that Republicans have constantly championed.
Why isn’t the previous generation ashamed of what they’ve saddled with us with?
A Liberal with shame!Did you catch what he admitted? He WAS the liberal who had six kids, and then took as much as he could from other people in the form of government assistance - including food stamps. Shame on him. A responsible person would have chosen beteeen:
1) having the wife get a job to help support the family in the lifestyle they wanted, or
2) downsizing their lifestyle, be it a smaller home, more modest vacations, whatever.
Instead, he chose to make OTHER PEOPLE cover the expenses of the SIX children he decided to have, and he lectures us about being greedy. Has he no shame?
Then don't have more children than you can afford on one salary. This isn't rocket science.God has all the power to create universes yet he still begs for your money at church....Funny how that works.
It is better when one parent is a stay-at-home parent to help raise a family compared to when both parents work...
And what the retirees put into it all of their life account for nothing? Just because the government began kiting those checks does not mean that the retirees did not pay for their own Social Security.There’s a little irony in your scenario here.
Guess who is paying for the retirees social security check? It’s straight up taking money from the engineer and giving it to the old people.
www.forbes.com
You’re right. What was I thinking?!A Liberal with shame!
Are you insane?!
You actually think God begs for money at church?God has all the power to create universes yet he still begs for your money at church....Funny how that works.
It is better when one parent is a stay-at-home parent to help raise a family compared to when both parents work...
My wife wanted three kids. After number two, I said it will be expensive and we were young so we kept it at two and probably wisely. Don't ask me to bail you out of your bad decisions.....I agree with your post 100%For non-gullible people who can read between the lines, here are two key points in the left-biased article::
1. He’s a college-educated software architect. The story quite noticeably omitted his salary (probably because it’s in the six figures).
2. The mother is a stay-at-home mom and says they are really feeling the pinch covering expenses for their four kids. After all, she doesn’t work.
Now for a couple of questions:
1. If they couldn’t afford to support four kids, why did they have them?
2. All four children are school-age. Why can’t the mother take one of the millions of unfilled jobs during school hours?
Sorry, but I am not going to cry when a college-educated professional complains that they can’t support their four kids on a single income, and expect to have other people fund child support payments so the wife doesn’t have to work.
'We can already feel the pinch.' Families aren't getting child tax credit checks for the first time in 6 months
The enhanced child tax credit abruptly ended in December after Democrats failed to pass the Build Back Better agenda. Families are feeling the loss.www.cnbc.com
Thanks. Both sets of grandparents limited themselves to two kids, because it was Depression times and that’s all they could afford. My parents also limited themselves to two, because they wanted to have Mom stay-at-home and they figured that’s how many would be comfortable to support on a single Income.That’s the type of thing responsible people do.My wife wanted three kids. After number two, I said it will be expensive and we were young so we kept it at two and probably wisely. Don't ask me to bail you out of your bad decisions.....I agree with your post 100%
What a sanctimonious self-rightous piece of shit you are. I didn't make the rules sister, I just played by them to get the best result desired. Why is it I am "irresponsible" and yet the business owner that maximizes his tax credits and deductions, is a hero? What about the almighty Donald Trump, who declared bankruptcy numerous times, shafted contractors on an ongoing basis, and used business losses carried forward for years to eliminate his tax liability not "irresponsible"? He damn sure used "other's people's money" to build his empire.Did you catch what he admitted? He WAS the liberal who had six kids, and then took as much as he could from other people in the form of government assistance - including food stamps. Shame on him. A responsible person would have chosen beteeen:
1) having the wife get a job to help support the family in the lifestyle they wanted, or
2) downsizing their lifestyle, be it a smaller home, more modest vacations, whatever.
Instead, he chose to make OTHER PEOPLE cover the expenses of the SIX children he decided to have, and he lectures us about being greedy. Has he no shame?
The days of single earner middle class families are gone. They've been gone for fifty years. If a family of six expects to live on one paycheck, they better be ready to make some sacrifices. The government or the rest of the population owes them NOTHING.For non-gullible people who can read between the lines, here are two key points in the left-biased article::
1. He’s a college-educated software architect. The story quite noticeably omitted his salary (probably because it’s in the six figures).
2. The mother is a stay-at-home mom and says they are really feeling the pinch covering expenses for their four kids. After all, she doesn’t work.
Now for a couple of questions:
1. If they couldn’t afford to support four kids, why did they have them?
2. All four children are school-age. Why can’t the mother take one of the millions of unfilled jobs during school hours?
Sorry, but I am not going to cry when a college-educated professional complains that they can’t support their four kids on a single income, and expect to have other people fund child support payments so the wife doesn’t have to work.
'We can already feel the pinch.' Families aren't getting child tax credit checks for the first time in 6 months
The enhanced child tax credit abruptly ended in December after Democrats failed to pass the Build Back Better agenda. Families are feeling the loss.
You will pay tax on only 85 percent of your Social Security benefits, based on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rules. If you:
- file a federal tax return as an "individual" and your combined income*is
- between $25,000 and $34,000, you may have to pay income tax on up to 50 percent of your benefits.
- more than $34,000, up to 85 percent of your benefits may be taxable.
- file a joint return, and you and your spouse have a combined income*that is
- between $32,000 and $44,000, you may have to pay income tax on up to 50 percent of your benefits.
- more than $44,000, up to 85 percent of your benefits may be taxable.
- are married and file a separate tax return, you probably will pay taxes on your benefits.
Request to withhold taxes
Submit a request to pay taxes on your Social Security benefit throughout the year instead of paying a big bill at tax time.www.ssa.gov
Do you notice, though, how ENRAGED they get if someone suggests that? Out comes the profanity, the contempt, the out-and-out HATRED for daring to point out that an educated professional who chooses to have four kids, five kids, six kids, should live within his means and support them.The days of single earner middle class families are gone. They've been gone for fifty years. If a family of six expects to live on one paycheck, they better be ready to make some sacrifices. The government or the rest of the population owes them NOTHING.
That’s not entirely true. Fifty years ago, I was a kid, living with my parents and one sibling in a house my folks bought on my dad’s salary alone. It was a nice house, and my sibling and I each had our own bedrooms, but our vacations were modest - a week at the beach, usually - and going out to dinner at anything other than Roy Rodgers was saved for someone’s birthday.The days of single earner middle class families are gone. They've been gone for fifty years. If a family of six expects to live on one paycheck, they better be ready to make some sacrifices. The government or the rest of the population owes them NOTHING.
Wow, thanks for the information. So this guy is well into the 6 figures.
You think doubling the AMerican work force didn't lower the value of men's wages?
lol
It's called the "two income trap" and it very much happened. If you removed all women from the work force tomorrow the value of the people left over who do work would sky rocket...
Not that complicated.
