Why am I working so hard?

[Anonymous]

Wait? You’re jealous is someone who has a 120k income at a dead end bureaucrat paper pusher job and are renters? While you are sitting in hundreds of thousands in equity and if you have half a brain are both maxing out your 401ks?

[Anonymous]

Amazing in this country a 300k+ earning household thinks they are entitled to stimulus money? Something is really wrong here.

[Anonymous]

OP, if you both quit your jobs you could get free food through SNAP. It's pretty cool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing stopping from quitting to SAH and selling your home to rent instead.

That sounds even worse. We wouldn’t be able to afford our basic townhome!

Where are you living that a basic townhome appraised at $1.3 mil?

We are in Fairfax County and our HHI is about $220k. Two teachers with a child in college and we have a SFH.

[Anonymous]

You are lucky to be earning too much for the stimulus. Take a step back and appreciate what you have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are lucky to be earning too much for the stimulus. Take a step back and appreciate what you have.

We have a HHI of $480K+ and luck has nothing to do with it. I’m still waiting for my stimulus money. I paid over $100K in federal income taxes in 2021 and even more the year prior. The people who received stimulus checks paid a fraction of this – they’re the ones that need to step back and appreciate what they have been given…at my family’s expense. Only in America can we brainwash the masses into thinking something like COVID-19 discriminates based on HHI. This has been the SCAMDEMIC of the century; nothing but a wealth redistribution in disguise from hard-working pillars of society to indigent sloths.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are lucky to be earning too much for the stimulus. Take a step back and appreciate what you have.

We have a HHI of $480K+ and luck has nothing to do with it. I’m still waiting for my stimulus money. I paid over $100K in federal income taxes in 2021 and even more the year prior. The people who received stimulus checks paid a fraction of this – they’re the ones that need to step back and appreciate what they have been given…at my family’s expense. Only in America can we brainwash the masses into thinking something like COVID-19 discriminates based on HHI. This has been the SCAMDEMIC of the century; nothing but a wealth redistribution in disguise from hard-working pillars of society to indigent sloths.

Good luck with that. Wait by your mailbox.

[Anonymous]

OP, you sound ridiculous. You have a home that will appraise for over $1M. You didn’t mention your retirement savings or other deductions that they most likely either don’t have or don’t have nearly as much saved as you because of relying on 1 income. Not to mention if anything happens to that one income … Yikes.

Then there’s the added stress of caring for SN children. So they got one time stimulus money … And?

You sound jealous. Which is weird. You really can’t compare yourself to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are lucky to be earning too much for the stimulus. Take a step back and appreciate what you have.

We have a HHI of $480K+ and luck has nothing to do with it. I’m still waiting for my stimulus money. I paid over $100K in federal income taxes in 2021 and even more the year prior. The people who received stimulus checks paid a fraction of this – they’re the ones that need to step back and appreciate what they have been given…at my family’s expense. Only in America can we brainwash the masses into thinking something like COVID-19 discriminates based on HHI. This has been the SCAMDEMIC of the century; nothing but a wealth redistribution in disguise from hard-working pillars of society to indigent sloths.

I’m a teacher and I received that check. The NERVE you have to suggest that I am not hard-working. I put in 65-70 hour weeks during the school year and the work I do matters. I teach high schools to write. I teach them to think critically. It’s important work that contributes to a healthy, educated society. What do you do for your $480K?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are lucky to be earning too much for the stimulus. Take a step back and appreciate what you have.

We have a HHI of $480K+ and luck has nothing to do with it. I’m still waiting for my stimulus money. I paid over $100K in federal income taxes in 2021 and even more the year prior. The people who received stimulus checks paid a fraction of this – they’re the ones that need to step back and appreciate what they have been given…at my family’s expense. Only in America can we brainwash the masses into thinking something like COVID-19 discriminates based on HHI. This has been the SCAMDEMIC of the century; nothing but a wealth redistribution in disguise from hard-working pillars of society to indigent sloths.

I’m a teacher and I received that check. The NERVE you have to suggest that I am not hard-working. I put in 65-70 hour weeks during the school year and the work I do matters. I teach high schools to write. I teach them to think critically. It’s important work that contributes to a healthy, educated society. What do you do for your $480K?

Edited:
High schoolERS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are lucky to be earning too much for the stimulus. Take a step back and appreciate what you have.

We have a HHI of $480K+ and luck has nothing to do with it. I’m still waiting for my stimulus money. I paid over $100K in federal income taxes in 2021 and even more the year prior. The people who received stimulus checks paid a fraction of this – they’re the ones that need to step back and appreciate what they have been given…at my family’s expense. Only in America can we brainwash the masses into thinking something like COVID-19 discriminates based on HHI. This has been the SCAMDEMIC of the century; nothing but a wealth redistribution in disguise from hard-working pillars of society to indigent sloths.

I’m a teacher and I received that check. The NERVE you have to suggest that I am not hard-working. I put in 65-70 hour weeks during the school year and the work I do matters. I teach high schools to write. I teach them to think critically. It’s important work that contributes to a healthy, educated society. What do you do for your $480K?

I suspect that PP was a SAHM.

[Anonymous]

It’s all about choices. You chose your path and they chose theirs. If you don’t like your path change it. Whiners are very annoying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH and I work hard to make a combined $300k. We live in a townhome that recently
appraised for $1.3m and our kids go to highly rated nearby public schools. We visit local free public parks. We go on mediocre beach vacations for a week.

My SIL is the sole breadwinner for her family of 4 and she makes about $120k. Her husband is a stay at home dad who helps take care of two special needs kids.

They rent a townhome in an ok area but still the same county as us and their kids go to local public schools. They visit local parks and go on mediocre beach vacations. They got $10k in stimulus funds that we did not qualify for.

It seems that we are basically living the same lifestyle yet we work so much harder for the exact same things. What gives? Why are we working so hard to get the basics?

Mediocre beach vacations? This sounds very pretentious of you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are lucky to be earning too much for the stimulus. Take a step back and appreciate what you have.

We have a HHI of $480K+ and luck has nothing to do with it. I’m still waiting for my stimulus money. I paid over $100K in federal income taxes in 2021 and even more the year prior. The people who received stimulus checks paid a fraction of this – they’re the ones that need to step back and appreciate what they have been given…at my family’s expense. Only in America can we brainwash the masses into thinking something like COVID-19 discriminates based on HHI. This has been the SCAMDEMIC of the century; nothing but a wealth redistribution in disguise from hard-working pillars of society to indigent sloths.

I’m a teacher and I received that check. The NERVE you have to suggest that I am not hard-working. I put in 65-70 hour weeks during the school year and the work I do matters. I teach high schools to write. I teach them to think critically. It’s important work that contributes to a healthy, educated society. What do you do for your $480K?

You chose your low paying profession not me bozo

[Anonymous]

I think the people with the special needs children are probably working pretty hard.