danickstr wrote on Fri, 09 April 2010 21:41 |
so if I make 10 mil a year, I am paying 2.2 mil in taxes, but I have 7.8 mil to blow on yachts, pretty girls and cocaine. heyahooooo! Sign me up for that guy's high tax burden.
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Where'd you get those numbers? that's not anywhere near correct.
Under new tax law (IE, the new healthcare law, etc), if you made 10mil, you'd be paying 5.9mil in tax.
Unless you came up with a bunch of write offs.
My problem with all of this is....the average american work week has been hovering about 34 hours a week for the last decade or so (down as low as 31 during recession).
If 50% of america really is "poor" by definition, it's nobody's fault but their own. Get up off your lazy but and do something about it instead of working a pathetic 31 hours a week. this country's sense of entitlement is sickening, and it's the lawyer who spends 90 hours a week in his office EARNING 500k a year who has to pay for all of that sheer laziness.
i'm PAYING my dues by working my ass off for poverty level pay in hopes that it will someday lead to something bigger and better, (and more lucrative). how sad that i will be continuing to pay dues when that day comes, just in a much more pocket burning kind of way.
although it all makes sense. why work your ass off when you've already got a free meal ticket? i guess 50% of america is ok with mediocrity.
there, i said it, and my tongue was only halfway in my cheek.