[AlaskaErik]

The report says the “Household Survival Budget” for a Michigan family of four is $50,345 and in order to live with “stability” (“one that enables not just survival, but self-sufficiency”) in Michigan, a family of four needs $92,409.

My wife and I could probably survive on $92,409, but $50,345 would mean poverty for us.

[kearnyirish2]

Here in northern NJ 10% would go to your property taxes right off the bat; federal & state income taxes, as well as the Social Security and Medicare taxes, would eat up their pieces as well. We have among the highest car insurance rates in the nation as well; $92.5K would have a family of four just surviving without being able to fix a home or car.

This arrangement was acceptable as long as decent jobs were plentiful; now that they have gone, American workers are fleeing in droves (and illegals are being trafficked here to replace them in housing, classrooms, and store aisles). The public employees “administering” here are our new upper middle class; everyone else is either taxed into poverty or living on the freebies (sometimes while working in our swelling black market economy).