Posted on 05/29/2011 10:10:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Come to New York City...”
New York state is a tax Hell and it is one of the most expensive places on earth to work and live.
“I actually feel sorry for people who make in the 100-200K range, because you go your entire life doing things right, then you end up giving half or more to the government, because liberals think you are evil and have to pay your fair share so they can sit on their asses in some bureaucracy wasting your money on people who didn’t make an effort to do anything.”
I live in Texas, and I don’t give the government anywhere near of what I make. Maybe 20%, including property tax and sales tax (thank you Internet, and thank you for deductions and credits).
But I do feel sorry for people that live on the coasts...
Yeah, I guess it depends on where you live in the country.
In California, you got the 36% federal income for top bracket plus payroll taxes, then the 12% for state income plus the 9.5% for sales tax, plus property taxes($10k a year for a $500K house, which is a dump where I live) and every user fee you can imagine.
And California is not even the worst state. I think people in New Jersey and New York pay more.
Oh! Did You See?
The blessed message in Joplin, Mo. A church completely wasted. The cross still standing straight and true! Loud and clear, above the storm, amid the rubble, our Lord Jesus Christ proclaims that He will prevail!
Hallelujah! Sweet promise out of misery, death and destruction! , made of tempered steel and placed upon the rock it did endure! To see it during the Memorial Service in Joplin . this morning amid prayers, and the ringing notes of our national anthem! How can any deny Him? We may not see Him but The Faithful Living Christ is ever will not be silenced. Praise God
>If we don’t putGod on the throne in our schools and in our homes, the money won’t matter anymore<
That doesn’t work on the coasts.
Also with the inflation rate, and increased ‘vig’ demanded by the police state, that number will inflate significantly in the coming months, years, decade.
IN my area on NJ, you need to be making $80k/yr plus have employer paid health insurance by 35 to be able to afford a starter home in a decent school district.
ON second look, Digitas is now at odds with almost every other estimate of individual earnings I’ve ever seen.
2009 Census estimates only less than 14million people with income over 100k....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States#Income_distribution
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032010/perinc/new11_000.htm
There is absolutely no freaking way there are over 44 million Americans with over 100k in annual income.
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s0691.pdf
Pardon my asking, but what do you do? Project management? Coding? Corporate recruiter?
...and do you live in a "high-tax" state?
Cheers!
I taught myself C++ in one weekend because I needed it to start coding for a project.
But I realize this requires enormous mental horsepower that 99% of the population does not have, and most of the 1% already have good professions.
A life of affluence can hardly compare to the simple gifts of reason and senses. Just offering some perspective.
RE: 2009 Census estimates only less than 14million people with income over 100k....
Maybe we should consider household income? (i.e. the sum of the incomes of both husband and wife).
Greenspun's Tenth Rule: Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
C++ is a dog's breakfast. And Java's not much better.
What does a Master Sergeant get today? My bet would be more like 48K.
my last link is household incomes.... still no way Digitas is close ... unless broke people who are doubling up households now have bolstered the number of 100k household incomes , but that doesn’t make them affluent.
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s0691.pdf
Instructional Design specializing in corporate systems. In layman’s terms, I make programs like the Video Professor types to teach people how to use systems, but instead of stuff for general use, it is generally more specialized corporate systems (billing, IT, network, etc). It is a fusion of technical writing, coding (depending on the system and if I have to recreate it), design, development, and project management.
Follow up on this study, pretty warped message from Ad Age magazine, ... since the numbers in the study are blatantly false.
http://adage.com/article/adagestat/ll-rich-35-100k-household-income/227671/
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