Posted on 10/06/2014 10:42:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
RE: 13 states now have benefits from the federal government and state programs that equal or better the average income for working at a job.
Off the top of your head, can you name a few or all of them?
I bet California and Illinois are in the 13.
Because it’s Summertime and the living is eeeeeeeeeasy....
oh wait.
lol
It’s good to get unemployment and welfare in the summer. Life is good!
I remember Hawaii was #1. And the rest were mostly liberal blue states. I think i saved that doc. somewhere. I’ll have a look.
Yeah, well, we’re self-employed capitalists and we pay taxes, fees, licensing,permits, practice insurance, etc, etc. If I thought we could get away with it, I’d go underground, too.
But we are Caucasian Midwesterners, older, monogamous and so, we pay more than a fair share, IMO.
Did you miss the sarcasm there?
The implication was that the only bad thing about underground economies, to our “benevolent overlords”, is that it isn’t taxed.
I got it. I’m just in a grumpy mood and it’s a sore topic for me. Sorry if it spilled over onto you or anyone else.
It's quite alright — I completely understand and it's a bit of a sore topic for me, too.
I've been unemployed/severely-underemployed for more than 2 years — I'm pretty discouraged about finding a good job (my degree is a prime target for the STEM/H1B-visa scam), and if I do get one I'll be facing a lot of taxes, in addition to probably getting taken advantage of… so that's some disincentive.
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