Why am I working so hard?

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You are a selfish pig OP hope you realize that

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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?

DP. Sorry but PP is right. It’s crazy that all of this free money was handed out to people based on income. It was a giant welfare program. Also you should find a new job if you’re seriously working 65-70 hours.

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I get it, OP. Your lifestyles are similar and you have 2 people working.

You won’t reap the benefits of how you’re living for a long time. You’re likely saving money in 529s and also have two retirement accounts instead of one. Right now you aren’t seeing the benefits from these accounts, but you will one day. You’ll retire with a lot more money and have way more options down the road. Eventually you won’t have child related expenses.

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

Stimulus should be progressive if we have progressive taxes

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

Stimulus should be progressive if we have progressive taxes

Precisely. Since stimulus checks are paid from the existing pool of tax revenue, they are essentially refunds and should be delivered in proportion to the underlying progressive tax structure. So, pick a percentage: maybe 10%. A family that paid $50,000 in 2019 taxes receives a $5,000 stimulus check. A family that paid $10,000 in 2019 taxes receives $1,000. No lower or upper limits. Basically giving everyone a retroactive discount on previous taxes paid.

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

I have family members worth tens of millions of dollars who got a "Biden pandemic relief" check for thousands of dollars. The check just showed up. They thought it was a joke. Yes, something really is wrong here. And people wonder why there's rampant inflation.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Stimulus should be progressive if we have progressive taxes

Precisely. Since stimulus checks are paid from the existing pool of tax revenue, they are essentially refunds and should be delivered in proportion to the underlying progressive tax structure. So, pick a percentage: maybe 10%. A family that paid $50,000 in 2019 taxes receives a $5,000 stimulus check. A family that paid $10,000 in 2019 taxes receives $1,000. No lower or upper limits. Basically giving everyone a retroactive discount on previous taxes paid.

So you suggest billionaire like Warren Buffet should receive millions in stimulus? That’s such an absurd idea…

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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?

Politicians were following the science. Science tells us that the more money you earn, the less susceptible you are to a communicable disease. Science also tells us that people who earn more money also tend to spend and invest less (amazing, I know) and are therefore less likely to help stimulate the economy if they were to have received a stimulus check. Finally, science tells us that there actually exists a hard upper limit on HHI, beyond which recipients of stimulus checks actually shred and burn them instead of cashing them in. It’s all in the [magically evolving] science!!! Can’t you just follow the science?!?!

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Shrug. We qualified for the stimulus (one engineer who works for the government, and one freelance journalist) and used it to pay for childcare for our young school age child so that we could actually work, since schools were virtual. So the money wound up enabling us to continue working plus employing the wonderful childcare workers who took care of my daughter. We also used some of it to pay for physical therapy for my DH when insurance wouldn't pay for more than 6 sessions, so it also helped employ several PTs and improved my DH's quality of life, no thanks to garbage health insurance companies that we pay premiums to every month so that they can deny coverage for basic things.

I don't feel sorry for any of you and the fact that you resent this is pathetic. I would 100% rather simply have enough money to pay for this stuff without government assistance, but DH and I also perform essential services that make YOUR lives better.

Y'all need to grow up.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Lol, that is the only part of this troll post that rang true. Any beach vacation within a 5 hour drive of the DMV is most likely mediocre and overpriced.

[Anonymous]

Timely article: It's time to stop living the American Scam. NYT.

https://archive.ph/6UWGu

[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?

You work hard to make a measly 300k? ROFL

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Anonymous wrote:

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?

You work hard to make a measly 300k? ROFL

Salaries in this area are higher bc the cost of living is so high. So even though $300 seems like a lot, the dollars don’t go as far you think.

[Anonymous]

I think the OP may not have huge savings. OP may have high mortgage and or daycare costs. That is why they go on local beach vacations.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the OP may not have huge savings. OP may have high mortgage and or daycare costs. That is why they go on local beach vacations.

OP is every other parent I know making far less I might add. When I learned my friends were paying $6,000 in combined daycare and rental costs I was amazed. While still paying student loans - although those have been paused for two years now.