Posted on 02/14/2002 10:25:16 AM PST by farmall
My wife and I are both public school teachers. We both teach additional day and after school classes. We both teach summer school and I have another job as a security guard. Combined total we earned @ $119,000 in 2001. IRS has already taken @ $19,000. It looks like they want another $ 3-5,000 on 4-15-02.
hear, hear. and if the kid knows he's going to have to pay for his education, he'll be sure he's studying what he needs to know to work in the field he wants to work in. and the best education is the one sought by the student, not the one forced on him to keep him off the streets.
I thought it would be more efficient to ignore the shift key, but I guess it has to be learned. I spent more time overcoming the impulse to shift than I would have just shifting.
Naaa..it just builds HUGE student loans which will put the kid deep in the hole before he even graduates. I worked 6 days a week throughout my college years. I won scholarships, also. I never earned enough to pay for tuition+books+fees, which have exploded at many times the rate of inflation. Schools have also learned that by requiring a few more credit hours here and there, they can keep someone in school an extra semester or two to collect even more tuition and fees. I calculated that to "work my way through college" without acquiring student loans I would have had to make at least $29.00 and hour working that 6 day work week.
Back when tuition+books+fees were reasonable, working one's way through college was a common and expected thing, and rightly so. But the expenses are far too high nowadays.
They are both beneath contempt.
Rich means you don't have to go to work in the morning, and your time is your own. It means not having to worry about losing your job. It means not wondering how many paychecks you are away from losing your house. Strong cashflow is not rich, just good payday to payday living, subject to interruption.
A retarded man once told me this little poem:
"A sonofabitch fell down in a ditch,
found a penny and thought he was rich."
Clearly, this retard was a genius.
Please let us know whom to thank for that.
It sounds like market forces now dictate that most people find employment that doesn't require a college education. That's the best thing that could have happened.
Take away that easy money and college tuition would be forced to conform to supply and demand. Tuition would go down, and we could return to the good old days of kids working their way through college.
My husband and I get by and pay our bills and can afford a nice dinner and night out. We are middle-class and proud of it. As long as I'm not living on the streets and have my husband, family, friends and a roof over my head, a warm cozy bed to sleep in, food, shower and my two cats, I'm happy.
I'm rich in my heart <3
I was being funny....
I never liked taxes. And I think the Dems are the greedy ones....they take other people's money and give it to their constituents
BTW: I am also of the opinion that college degrees are oversold and overvalued (considering their true content), and that there are ways to make as good or better living without one.
Nope. No income for sources derived outside of the U.S. or in the District of Columbia or those territories where the feds have sole authority = no income tax. I have never seen any listed source in IRC/USC 26 which would indicate that regular work income within the 50 states (other than income derived from the sale or manufacture of Alcohol, Tobacco, or Firearms) is subject to an excise tax (what the income tax was ruled by the Supreme Court).
No deductible college savings plan, Farmall? Keep your eyes open.
Come on, start your own business. Schedule "C" can be your friend.
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