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Is that your definition of "poverty": not paying federal income taxes?
Firm
Honestly, I wouldn't say "poverty" but I'd definitely say poor.
From this:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Nearly-half-of-US-households-apf-1105567323.html?x=0
The example given is a family of four making $50,000 a year would pay no federal income tax. Assuming it's a two income house, like most families, that would mean two people at jobs making $25k a year. And I'm sorry but...$25k a year is poor. For a standard 40 hour work week, that's $12 an hour. I made $10 an hour in high school...10 years ago. There's no fucking way I could have supported myself and a kid on $12 an hour...not living any sort of reasonable lifestyle. Especially not if I was paying for my own health insurance, dental, etc. Two parents making $12/hr, with 2 kids...that's not really financially comfortable. Especially if they're living in a city.
No...25K per year is NOT poor. Oh...my starting salary as a first year associate in a law firm, by the way, in 1992 was $27,000.00 My rent was $750. I had to budget, no doubt about it. My rent was approximately 45% of my monthly income, but I got by. Lots of pasta and canned chicken.
Growing up in Arkansas, I have seen "real" poverty. I have seen houses with outhouses even in this day and age. Home made houses with newspaper covering each and every wall like wall paper because newspaper is a great source of insulation, water from an outside well, no electricity and a "party-line" telephone if there was a telephone at all. And yet, those people had more pride, dignity and independence than many of those on this board.
Awwww...25K apiece is uncomfortable especially if they are living in the city??? Poor babies. Maybe they can't afford to live in the city? Just like I can't afford to live in Short Hills or Jackson Hole or Aspen or on Riverside Dr. I guess we all have to live within our fucking means and try to change our means if we are dissatisfied with how we are living.
Amazing, I have said it many times before and I will reiterate it here. Right down the street there is a project housing complex....100% Section 8. The satellite dishes ugly up the place to the extent that it makes it look like a military radar post. Cable wires run all over the place. Window unit air conditioners in most units. People on cell phones. Inside is there a tv? Probably...right? For all of those satellite dishes! How about a computer and high speed internet. Maybe an X-Box game system? The people are dressed pretty well too. I don't know...doesn't look that horrid to be in their shoes. It isn't like they are digging for grubs and shitting in the woods. They certainly don't look like the pictures we have of America during the Great Depression. And yet, these people should get more? Are you fucking kidding me? Oh...these people should pay nothing? Really? They shouldn't work either?????? LOLOLOLOLOL no wonder why the U.S. is FUCKED. Sure this is only one reason and there are many others but this is an issue that you liberal anchors refuse to meaningfully address.
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