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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to catch the same breaks as poor people, it's not too hard to put yourself into poverty, I guess.[/quote]

Truthfully, there are ways around which we didn't realize too late. If my spouse stayed independent he could have paid himself less. I could have gone part-time. We could have done a home renovation to drive down our worth.  We would haven't stacked the 529s which are counted against us.

I was a kid that was told 'state school' only and I swore I wouldn't do that to my kids, but the cost of college education over the past 18 years (have one becoming a senior in this Fall) has exponentially gotten so out of hand.  And, we lie in that sweet spot of 'screw you, you get zero $, drain your retirement accounts and all your savings' if you want something beyond state school while our neighbors that saved zero in 529s, wife never worked, husband has been flitting job to job making little $, serious credit card debt from flying first class only on multiple vacations and buying only German new cars--filed for bankruptcy recently--kid is going need blind full ride to a private. In what world does this make sense?[/quote]

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