If you earn $100 and the government takes 33% (Fed, state, local), you have $67 left.

That $67 is for you.

But, $67 isn't enough because as you spend that $67, let's say $10 of that $67 is more taxes and fees for things you need.

So, $57 is directly for you.

However, can't live with that. Pull out the credit card for $200 more.

Out of that $200, there will be taxes and fees, so borrowing isn't 100% for the recipient.

It sucks.

Now, govt taxation creates an account to spend. But all that money isn't directly going to recipients. There will be costs to distribute. So all that money taken away is reduced before coming back.

The govt doesn't just return a portion of what they took. They're borrowing too, and in much larger amounts.

So the individual has less after earning. Spending causes more attrition. The govt gives part back, but loses along the way. The govt borrows and never pays it back.

If individuals don't pay their debts through using credit, it's downhill fast. The govt isn't going downhill as fast, but it's goimg downhill nonetheless.

The crash at the bottom will hurt.

"Although my personal experience won't have any effect on your view, from my perspective you are elitist, cruel and unrealistic - not a leader."

Homeless, jobless, penniless. Your personal experience? That was mine at twenty.

Now, harsh reality. People want to live life easy.

Life isn't.

So, bitch and complain.

You must live according to your own means. You have to live where you can afford and it might mean living where you don't want to. Living with less and living with nothing.

Why do all those poor folk from South of the border come to the US? How far are they willing to go and with nothing (even with little or no English).?

Guess they had it easy and gave it all up just to come to the rotten North.

How often do we hear, they came here for a better life, are at least trying, raising a family, they're not the bad people.

Well, there seems to be a lot of belly aching from citizens who can't see that the Southern destitute are doing better than they are.

There is work to do and cheap places to live. Nobody is saying it's great, but it's all there. Why are Americans looking down on where they don't want to live or work.

Over 99% of US citizens live above the international poverty line.

All you have to do is make the poverty line anything you want it to be to be considered poor in the US.

From homeless, destitute, penniless, no assets but the shirt on my back to made a difference because nobody else was going to do it for me. Damn, I was the less than 1% below the International poverty line. Get to that point and you begin to count what suffering is.

Guess anecdotal doesn't count.

McDonald's hamburger typically costs between $1.69 and $3.89

Hamburger / Cheeseburger: One 1.6 oz patty (Total: 1.6 oz)McDouble / Double Cheeseburger: Two 1.6 oz patties (Total: 3.2 oz)Big Mac: Two 1.6 oz patties (Total: 3.2 oz)Quarter Pounder with Cheese: One 4 oz patty (Total: 4 oz)Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese: Two 4 oz patties (Total: 8 oz)

The national average price for a pound of standard ground beef typically ranges between $6.50 and $9.00, depending on the fat percentage and leanness. Prices for federal retail data sit at roughly $6.75 per pound, while leaner or organic grinds can easily exceed $8.00 to $9.00.

Is it better to eat out or buy it from the supermarket?

Is the issue can't afford where you want to live or you can afford where you don't want to live?

If you graduated high school and ten years later you have the same skill set as a current HS graduate, minimum wage is probably accurate for you.

The Germans didn't know what was happening to the people in WWII. All those camps, trains full of people, leaving empty houses and buildings all over Germany.

What's happening in England and most of Europe just is new news. Nobody could have known.

Just like the US and Epstein. He did it alone, well...maybe with the maxwell person. But,that's it. Nobody else could be tried because. Well, the law only allows the prosecution of one person at a time. The prosecution needs to rest between trials.

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Anyone of the billionaires who claim they don't mind paying more taxes can just write a check.

After the election, we think about who win, who lost, and where improvements could be made.

Then, we wait for the next election, for better candidates.

We don't get better ones. We get the same ones. Any new ones are just copies of the old ones.

The results are the same.

How do we know?

We you are an elected representative, you are expected to vote with the party always.

Everyone knows, that representatives from different States, must vote with the Party's platform. Screw your State. Screw your constituents.

It's vote Party line or you are a traitor to be removed at the first opportunity.

The news likes to point out those that don't vote along the party vote. Nobody asks if the traitor is actually right.

Tiffany Henyard.

Stewart is slacking.

I'm convinced of the potential of a scorched earth policy after midterms.

Never saw an individual get such tax treatment forever.

But, according to the NYT per a secret deal never confirmed, one religion gets tax breaks, (including all their members), forever.

Strange the NYT really believes the religion lost every single tax court case and got a deal.

Lamp,

Take the Supreme Court and set the court at 6 for one party and 3 for the other.

We know the judges are selected on their personal point of view.

Take two sets of these 9 judges.

If the two groups, on specific cases, vote 6-3, that means the Supreme Court decision for the whole country went in one direction solely based on their personal opinion.

Why should it be overruled? Which is actually right? The Court that made tye first decision or the other?

When anyone without a law degree can tell you which way the court will decide solely on who put them there, how can you know the precedent should stand?

9-0 cases would need some real reasoning to overturn that precedent and I wouldn't support an easy overturn.

Ideology cases don't establish who's right. It only tells us who people support for their side.

Of course they are throwing harder.

Pitchers only have to last a few innings. What's the number of pitches per game now? 50?

Cy Young records are safe.

Screw precedence.

Any ruling 5-4 or 6-3 that is obviously determined by ideology can change.

It's the court's fault for not sticking to law and the Constitution.

Either Congress rewrites the law or amends the Constitution.

String theory resolved

Hey, just let your young job searchers, and old, that sone jobs responses need to be vetted right on the response.