[TChris]

If pork barrel spending were eliminated and taxation reduced to actual national necessity levels, a second income would be almost universally unnecessary. As it is, combined taxation levels are in the 50% neighborhood for many, and that has real impact on many families. </rant>

That said, I will look for this book. It seems to make many important points and is long overdue in the national debate.

[Sam the Sham]

This has nothing to do with taxes.

The advent of the two income family coincided with the explosion of the cost of the nice house in the suburbs with the good school district as middle class whites poured out of cities in the 70's. That house costs two paychecks. Period.

[Siamese Princess]

If pork barrel spending were eliminated and taxation reduced to actual national necessity levels, a second income would be almost universally unnecessary. As it is, combined taxation levels are in the 50% neighborhood for many, and that has real impact on many families.

People don't want to pay their own way through life -- they want everyone else to pay more and more. The name of the game is to be a bigger leacher than leachee.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

If pork barrel spending were eliminated and taxation reduced to actual national necessity levels, a second income would be almost universally unnecessary. As it is, combined taxation levels are in the 50% neighborhood for many, and that has real impact on many families.

Whilst this is true, remember that it's those very same families who vote for tax increases by demanding that the government do and provide more.