| trashleg said: wow thats crazy : but my schooling, by the end of it, will have cost... about 8k, plus 16k so thats like 32k just for 2 years of college and 4 years of uni (even tho im only in my 2nd year at uni) but then there's things like primary/secondary school education that im gonna expect to be free if and when the time ever comes for me to have kids, and the police force and emergency services staff who need to be paid... i know that half a million is a hell of a lot of money, and i will probably feel very bitter and angry within a few years of paying any of these taxes, but for now i can still say that as long as i have enough, money isnt everything. its not what you've got, its what you do with it.. which, funnily enough, ties in perfectly to this thread my brain hurts. on the one hand i think "i dont mind too much" but on the other i know the whole thing's a sham. meep. |
lol.you are talking income tax only. You still haven't included sales tax, property (and school) tax, and tax for anything else you might have to pay for. My property tax is going to be 5k/year. 3k of which is for elementary/high school even if I never have a child, or if I send him to private school. The town school taxes are so high in NY that the NY state government decided they would start the STAR program which essentially is a state rebate on your local town taxes. Obviously something is really screwed up. Rather than lower taxes, we now have to pay people who manage our rebate on our tax because it is too high.
