Posted on 01/27/2019 5:41:47 AM PST by Gamecock
Sounds like an affirmative action recipient. Especially if it’s in NYC. Women are a protected class under EEOC regs and employers act accordingly. In case you didn’t know. BTW how many white males have you seen working the cushy $80k jobs at the post office lately? You don’t see any in Florida. Last time I was at the post office I asked a customer why that was so. His reply was the reason there’s no white guys behind the counter is because “the pay isn’t high enough”. Give me a break. An $80k gig in Florida would be like manna from heaven.
If you pay for multiple kids to go to school, pay a mortgage, pay utilities, pay for the upkeep of the house, buy groceries, health and dental insurance, and one or more car payments, then that $90,000 isn’t so impressive.
In addition to the comments about cost of living vs location, I have another.
Once you have a decent listed income, many, many things become more expensive as you lose government subsidies. I’m thinking of college tuition, as one example. I have a liberal relative who deliberately stayed unemployed and partially employed for longer than he needed to so that his daughter could get a free ride at the state college, because it made their FAFSA application look needier.
This topic is well discussed under the topic of the marginal tax effect of phasing out government benefits.
25k for a family of four, but what they don’t tell you is: free health care, section 8 housing, free phone, reduced water/electric/heat, free school lunch, WIC, welfare, SNAP, etc. I’d say that brings the total up to about 70K, very close to what a real working family makes.
$90,000 in DC is nothing compared to $90,000 in rural, low tax state.
Our household income is substantially above that level. We are scrambling to get every penny in the bank to avoid being dependent on Social Security.
My daughter earned her job thru her background, leadership and interview skills. 2 girl friends of hers (among others) applied for the same job.
Income/Outgo is one thing.
Accumulating Wealth is another.
You can bring in over 100k a year and still be poor as a pauper and in a self inflicted debt hole..
“I suspect this is Dems priming the pumps to raise taxes on those earning above $90k.”
Absolutely - on Joe and Jane Average. I will bet you that $90K that AOC will not touch the truly rich like Meryl Streep or Leonardo DiCaprio or Warren Buffet or Zuckerberg or Mike Bloomberg.
Those people NEVER pay. They buy the politicians that write the tax laws!
Wait! Maybe not $90,000...
LOL!! 90K was once known as 9K and bought as much as 90K buys today. 1957 was the year. You could buy a 3 BR house for 10K in the burbs. If you made 15K a year, that was a great salary, the avg job only brought you about $5200 a year. Then again, a doctor visit was like $15, and they drove to your house. Yup we are sooo much better off today. s/
P.S. The wages were the same in 1962 where I earned $5200 a year as a new teacher. I left that job for a $71 a day job. (once a month)
I’m rich! I’ve had an incredible life: Been married 33 years; have 18 children; have traveled extensively; lived all over; and have a God who loves me. I went to college back when we had only 6 kids and made less than $12,000 a year. We were rich then.
I make over 18 times that now, and I’m still rich. My home is in Florida, and every morning I wake up feeling blessed. I’m currently on an OCONUS contract, and appreciate our country more every day. We are all rich; too many don’t understand that there’s no amount of money that brings contentment. Living the life God grants us is richness in itself.
Well, some expenses are unavoidable. I support a 2nd household (sick family member with 3 young sons). We all have different situations.
When I was making a wee bit over $100K I didn’t consider myself rich, well to do certainly, but rich? No.
OTOH, the cost of living in Silicon Valley was so high, most of that was eaten up by normal day-to-day expenses.
I’m rich by the measure in both your posts.
I LIKE living in the only time and place in all of recorded history where the poor people are fat!
$90 or $100 thousand a year? “Rich?” LOL! Not even close.
In NYC if you’re single and you make less than $100 thousand a year, you’re poor. $100 thousand a year there allows you a middle class lifestyle. The costs are certainly less than that in other places but if you’ve got a large student loan payment to make - which many in white collar jobs who earn around that amount do - that again can easily put you on a par with NYC costs when accounting for that monthly payment.
Ditto. Too many don't live within their means.
Agreed. In the Soviet Union, all it took was owning two cows to be considered a Kulak and thus to suffer horribly at the hands of the commies. Gotta pay for all that socialism they want somehow. Once you confiscate all the wealth of the billionaires and millionaires it doesn’t come close to covering the cost. So they’ve got to define “rich” down so they can force upper middle and middle class folks to pay their “fair share”.
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