10% U.S. Flat Tax Accross the Board! - Page 6

merrylander · #51 05-16-2009, 08:18 AM

24k a year, hmm, property taxes over $5k, electricity in January was $650, gas is $2.33 but the car mostly stays in the garage. Homeowners insurance, auto insurance, food, etc. guess we could make it to June on $24k or if the kitchen garden comes in fast enough maybe to August if we turn off all the lights.

We have had eight years of government ignoring this country, our roads suck, bridges fall down, private industry ignoring the future out of present greed. Flat tax is about the dumbest idea I have ever heard, and in 78 years I have heard some pretty stupid proposals.

Independent · #52 05-16-2009, 12:40 PM

You guys are definitely living in the wrong part of the country! There is a lovely upstairs 2 bedroom apartment down the street from me, and across the street from a park, it goes for the whopping cost of $300 a month plus utilities. I could easily live on 24K a year, and have done so, in little town USA.

Get out of the east coast, west coast, south coast, big city, burbs, etc., and move to a midwestern small town and see how it's done! Sure, you might have to commute a little ways (50 miles would be the furthest) for a job, but there's no traffic on the way there!

Indy

OvenMaster · #53 05-16-2009, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Brett A

I live in a part of Massachusetts that has been economically depressed for 30+ years, and a 3 bedroom apartment is going to cost you $900+ utilities; houses start around $180k.

As a serf treading water in the western half of the Commiewealth, I can easily verify that this statement is true.
All I'd like to know is WHY it's still true. It defies logic.
:grumble bitch gripe:

merrylander · #54 05-16-2009, 02:42 PM

And if we all move to where you are then the prices will go up, so it it not worth the trouble.

We have spent 20 or more years planting trees, flowers, cleaning out the woods, simply getting this place looking the way it does, the only way you could get my wife out of here is in an urn.

Now if she goes before me then Nova Scotia here I come.

Centralflori · #55 05-16-2009, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Grumpy

It was 17 before taxes. The only income we had was my wife delivering pizzas for Domino's. I was paying 980 for my mortgage at the time. I know there are other areas more depressed then the greater Detroit area but not by much.

And no I am not saying my family is better then anyone else. Just saying we were hurting big time and all most lost our house several times but you do what you have to in tough times.

Hey Grumpy you were living large on those Dominoes Pizzas.

That's like making an extra $15K a year for a family of six.