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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No.  I mean I’m Gen X 2 jobs two kids in a high COL area.  And by the time college becomes affordable, we will have already sacrificed a lot to put our kids through full pay. After paying full freight for daycare. After our students loans are paid off.  After we have paid 20 years or more of high health insurance premiums and huge co-pays and are about to qualify for Medicare.  Everything was so much more expensive for me than it was for my parents. For childcare to housing to healthcare to college.  I need to be saving for retirement.  It would be nice after years of watching every penny to have some discretionary income once my kids are done with college.  It’s hard to swallow higher taxes for zero additional services for me.  And I am tired of being the donut hole everything in a generation that doesn’t matter because it has small numbers.

I want everyone to have access to college. And healthcare. And quality childcare. But I paid $71,000 in federal taxes last year, contribute $40,000 a year to Kid 1’s education, with Kid 2 soon to follow, and none of it is tax deductible, max out my retirement because we had job loss during the recession, pay $800 a month for health insurance, and have over $10,000 out of pocket already this year,  commute 45 minutes each way to live in a house we can afford in a good school district, drive a 7 year old Subaru and am not living in the lap of luxury. I’m contributing what I can.  I can’t afford another $30,000 in taxes so someone else gets their student loan debt wiped out, when we gave up so much so our kids wouldn’t have any.  Maybe that’s selfish. Or, maybe it’s pragmatic. [/quote]

This is right on the money (no pun intended). There are lots of us that likely agree with the progressive dems on lots of issues, but we don’t want to be their ATM.[/quote]

What you aren't factoring in to your personal equation is the money you wouldn't be spending on a number of services because they would be part of your taxes instead of additional line items on your personal budget.[/quote]

For Gen X, which ones?

Not college loans. Paid off.
Not childcare.  Kids are too old
Not paid family leave.  Again— kids too old. 
Not college. Kid 1 will be out and Kid 2 will be done or close
Not healthcare.  I’m not going to come out better than Fed health insurance.  And I will hit Medicare soon anyway.

Boomers are in retirement and paying less in taxes. It’s a wealth shift from Gen X to Millennials.  [/quote]

This!!!!!!!!!!   It is sickening.[/quote]

it's actually a wealth transfer from responsible people to people who can't plan and live beyond their means but hey that's the democratic party for you.  Anything to buy votes personal responsibility be damned

signed millennial who actually picked an affordable college majored in something that would actually pay waited on kids until we could afford it.  Picked a part of the country where we could afford decent housing and childcare costs.  We are also saving for college I guess we should stop doing that.  And for healthcare for anyone with a decent job healthcare comes from your employer and if you make over 50k guess what costs are going up and coverage quality is going to go down if the ds have their way.[/quote]

Yes.  This.  All day long.  I lived the same responsible life, scrimped and saved and did without to have what little we have. And now the Ds want to.take what we rightfully earned away and give it to those who mishandled their lives and live beyond their means to project a certain image.

Another PP hit the nail on the head.  Warren's ...and other D's...proposed taxes with hit those with salaries the hardest.  That's the easiest money to tax.  The salaries.  The non wealthy...That is the middle class for you ignorant people dreaming of free stuff.

The rich know how to hide their money.  The rich D's on this thread aren't sweating because they know how to shelter their money and they have the means to do it. The middle class be be taxed into nonexistence.  And if you don't think the middle class sees this...you are dead wrong.[/quote]

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