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**career-builder** · 04-26-2011, 03:17 PM

Don't like posting and commenting here much anymore since it's become a bit too ideological and partisan but on the Middle Class theme of being the beast of the tax burden found this piece that provides some good insight. Johnston has been covering U.S. tax code as a beat writer for some time now. Won a Pulitzer Prize

What's particularly damning to me is the $15,300 line. I am certain this number has declined in the past 30 years--but is it a decline due to not keeping up with inflation? Or one due to layoffs and new blue-collar hires being forced to take pay cuts? Or a combination of the two?

In any event, that number alone explains in a nutshell what the problems in our country are. I challenge any libertarian--anybody, for that matter--on this board to attempt to live on a budget of $15,300 a year. Even existing at $20k/yr is exceedingly difficult.

I would not want to be one to attempt it...I am escaping it.

04-26-2011, 03:17 PM	#10
career-builder Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 484 Senior Member	Don't like posting and commenting here much anymore since it's become a bit too ideological and partisan but on the Middle Class theme of being the beast of the tax burden found this piece that provides some good insight. Johnston has been covering U.S. tax code as a beat writer for some time now. Won a Pulitzer Prize What's particularly damning to me is the $15,300 line. I am certain this number has declined in the past 30 years--but is it a decline due to not keeping up with inflation? Or one due to layoffs and new blue-collar hires being forced to take pay cuts? Or a combination of the two? In any event, that number alone explains in a nutshell what the problems in our country are. I challenge any libertarian--anybody, for that matter--on this board to attempt to live on a budget of $15,300 a year. Even existing at $20k/yr is exceedingly difficult. I would not want to be one to attempt it...I am escaping it.
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