10% U.S. Flat Tax Accross the Board!

[kretinus]

Originally Posted by soundhound

where? some third world country?

Do you get out much? Seriously.

$24K after taxes would be roughly around $19K a year.

That comes to $1583 a month. In my area, a decent 1 bedroon apartment will run you around $400 and that will generally include heat and water, our electric bill with 2 PCs a variety of electronics and tons of outdoor lighting runs around $100 so let's say $500 total for housing and utilities.

That would be in a town with a theatre, a really nice water park, tons of other tree filled parks, more than a few night clubs etc. Yeah, third world level living.

OK so then you have a little over $1000 a month in discretionary money. Car payment? yeah if you need something to impress the neighbors, that will cost you. But you can get safe, reliable transportation for a loan with payments of under $200 a month. If you haven't trashed your credit rating with credit cards buying shiny objects.

OK $800 left. Insurance, if you're a good safe driver will run you around $40 for state minimum liability, around $125 for the works. So let's say $125, $675 left.

Health insurance? I can get my own policy right now, standard 80/20 with prescription for about $150 a month or less, so you have $525 left.

Are you seeing a patterm here or do you want to insist that you can't live anywhere but a third world country on $24K a year.

Now if you have a family, yes, $24K would be pathetic.

Then we split into two groups, families that ended up with $24K a year after someone lost a job or got hurt. I'm all for helping them find a way out of that hole.

And then you have the people who knew they only had $24K a year and decided it owuld be cool to have kids even though they couldn't afford them.

How far do you go in supporting people who simply didn't use common sense?

Or do you think we have a right to a standard of living regardless of our choices at the tax payers expense?