Bottom line, it is not your decision how much money you need or what you do with it, it is the government elites that decides, and you obey.
Th3 dirty little secret is that many many kids go hungry because their parent doesn’t have the money to feed them properly, or they just don’t care. Rising prices Will Make it much tougher on these kids, as they get less and less because their parent’s paychecks do not go up. This is the actual dirty little secret that people like ruhle ignore.
A key to my retirement planning was to reduce my cost of living AND my taxable income. I retired four months ago - comfortably at age 67. If I still lived in Seattle, I’d have to wait until my 80’s - assuming I was still alive by then.
And if things remain the same, I’ve sent my last income tax dollar to the IRS.