75k rich?

[one love]

sorry but in a two income household making 37,500.00 a year each equals 75k are you really telling me that making 37k is rich?????

PG I understand what you are saying but add this up if both parents work in this situation it will cost avg. 130.00 per child a week in day care so that is over a thousand a month in child care. After taxes one that makes 37 k may get 1800.00 a month give or take a little depending upon how you claim your taxes
To rent a house here will cost you $1400.00 a month and that is 1300 sq. ft. home 3 bed.
Car payment for both, gas, groceries, gas etc to equate this with wealthy , rich or even well off is crazy. Now If I lived in some areas of NC and made 75 k i would be doing better for sure because it is much cheaper but it still would not be rich.
It is barely middle class. Dont misunderstand I am not saying it is poor by any means but it surely is not rich. When you add taxes in everything 100k is not rich. Everything is relative and I feel well off would be 250k or higher but that would still depend on where you live.
As I said in a two income home if each just makes 37k a year then they are in that bracket. so if two cops were married they would be considered rich A cop and a teacher rich
Just a thought, im not implying what i make, but making a observation also add other things in this college etc

[DaJudge]

....but responsibilities and inflation change.

Ain't it the truth?

[dawgs10]

bottom line is in a perfect world trickle down and not taxing the rich would work. but greed always gets in the way.

The bottom line is, in the REAL world, lower taxes on everybody stimulates the economy. Cutting or eliminating taxes on the lower income folks and soaking the rich will always backfire. It may make the poor feel good to soak the rich, but it will bite them in the butt.

your statement does not make mine any less true.

[DaJudge]

bottom line is in a perfect world trickle down and not taxing the rich would work. but greed always gets in the way.

The bottom line is, in the REAL world, lower taxes on everybody stimulates the economy. Cutting or eliminating taxes on the lower income folks and soaking the rich will always backfire. It may make the poor feel good to soak the rich, but it will bite them in the butt.

your statement does not make mine any less true.

Actually it does. You said that "trickle down" doesn't work. It does. Did it make YOU wealthy? No. But it very likely did create your job.

[one love]

If I EVER made 75k in one year. I would feel rich indeed.

You would think so, wouldn't you? Truth is, you never feel like you make enough. I felt like I was getting the shaft when I made 32K and I feel like I'm getting the shaft now that I make considerably more.

Shoot, Judge....If I could make 32k I'd feel a little hi-fa-lootin!

I understand what you are saying....I remember saying if I could make what I AM MAKING NOW....I'd never complain....but responsibilities and inflation change.

so true Gerald so true I have said the same if I could make this much we would be doing so good, then it happens and you realize it was not as much as you thought.

[dawgs10]

bottom line is in a perfect world trickle down and not taxing the rich would work. but greed always gets in the way.

The bottom line is, in the REAL world, lower taxes on everybody stimulates the economy. Cutting or eliminating taxes on the lower income folks and soaking the rich will always backfire. It may make the poor feel good to soak the rich, but it will bite them in the butt.

your statement does not make mine any less true.

Actually it does. You said that "trickle down" doesn't work. It does. Did it make YOU wealthy? No. But it very likely did create your job.

in the end i am still working for people that withold bonuses,insurance,fair pay raises and other benefits so that a stockholder somewhere can pocket more money while i earn it for them. it all depends on your perspective.

[Pastor Gary]

in the end i am still working for people that withold bonuses,insurance,fair pay raises and other benefits so that a stockholder somewhere can pocket more money while i earn it for them. it all depends on your perspective.

Me too, I guess... I have not have a 5¢ raise from my local church in the seven years I have pastored here.

[one love]

why does an employee always think there boss is wrong and evil for doing what they do? Start a buisness and do it yourself if you dont like the way your job is but to be angry at a stock holder for investing is just crazy further more it is not just the employees that makes the company, so the "they get rich off of my labor thing is wrong" Are they supposed to get poor?

[DaJudge]

in the end i am still working for people that withold bonuses,insurance,fair pay raises and other benefits so that a stockholder somewhere can pocket more money while i earn it for them. it all depends on your perspective.

Then go find another job. Are they holding a gun to your head making you work there? They pay you what they think you are worth. If you think you are worth more, then go find someplace that will pay you that.

And that stockholder somewhere pocketing that money, guess who that might be? A teacher, or a cop, or a millworker with a 401K. Not only rich people have stocks.

[dawgs10]

in the end i am still working for people that withold bonuses,insurance,fair pay raises and other benefits so that a stockholder somewhere can pocket more money while i earn it for them. it all depends on your perspective.

Me too, I guess... I have not have a 5¢ raise from my local church in the seven years I have pastored here.

now pastor gary, we all know its not the pay that makes the ministry worth it. ITS THE LOCATION!!!

[Pastor Gary]

in the end i am still working for people that withold bonuses,insurance,fair pay raises and other benefits so that a stockholder somewhere can pocket more money while i earn it for them. it all depends on your perspective.

Me too, I guess... I have not have a 5¢ raise from my local church in the seven years I have pastored here.

now pastor gary, we all know its not the pay that makes the ministry worth it. ITS THE LOCATION!!!

I though you Georgia people thought you were in south Heaven.

[DaJudge]

but to be angry at a stock holder for investing is just crazy

That is so true one love. They are the person who put up the money to build the building you work in. They front the cash to pay for the products you sell.

[DaJudge]

I though you Georgia people thought you were in south Heaven.

North Georgia is South Heaven. South Georgia is North Hell.

[dawgs10]

in the end i am still working for people that withold bonuses,insurance,fair pay raises and other benefits so that a stockholder somewhere can pocket more money while i earn it for them. it all depends on your perspective.

Then go find another job. Are they holding a gun to your head making you work there? They pay you what they think you are worth. If you think you are worth more, then go find someplace that will pay you that.

And that stockholder somewhere pocketing that money, guess who that might be? A teacher, or a cop, or a millworker with a 401K. Not only rich people have stocks.

i am one of those. am a manager. i have people working for me. its all the same everywhere so ill stay where i am at. but the older i get the more i understand about greed and the so called american dream. bottom line some will defend a way of life and stick there head in the sand as the economy goes bust and the rep. thats running for office says he dont know much about it. its going to be a great year!!!

[dawgs10]

I though you Georgia people thought you were in south Heaven.

North Georgia is South Heaven. South Georgia is North Hell.

dajudge and i find something to agree on today!!