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Do you 'enjoy' spending time with your kids?
- Yes, most of the time we really have fun together
- Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's really dull and aggravating
- Honestly most of the time it's not fun at all, but it's not supposed to be fun
- I really don't enjoy it at all, and wish I could spend less time with them
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DH made between $1M and $2M for the last few years. (NON-banker, btw). We paid hundreds of thousands in taxes. Guess what? I don't care about a 5% tax increase. Its much more important to me that the money is well spent FINALLY.
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and we've been fortunate enough to be able to live well , and live within our means. I do get that for someone living hand to mouth a small tax increase could be a hardship. But someone making 250K shouldn't be living paycheck to paycheck.
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np. come now, you are being ridiculous. pa's fresh out of college with their $40K salaries are making it in nyc, certainly someone with 250k (and even a few kids) can too
[ Reply | More ]I'm sick of people using living in NYC as an excuse for six-figure earners to be living paycheck to paycheck. It's BS. We make $85K, are raising 2 kids in Manhattan, and we have enough in savings to last us two years if DH lost his job. Maybe if more people learned to live within their means, they wouldn't be living paycheck to paycheck.
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I'm not sure whether it's going to be well spent, is my issue. I support the goals the administration is trying to achieve, but I'm not sure if they are going to be able to execute them.
[ Reply | More ]they won't be able to execute them without raising taxes on the wealthiest, that's for sure.
[ Reply | More ]But if you raise everyone's taxes, and you don't fix the economy, and you don't fix education, and you don't fix health care, what happens then?
[ Reply | More ]Yes. Those dog parks are VERY important. Wake up, people: If you live in NYC and make 250k+, you will be paying OVER 50% in city, state and federal in taxes starting in 2011. This is downright punitive.
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I make far less than your DH but still enough to be taxed, I *am* in the banking industry, and I would have no hesitation about the tax increase if I was confident it would be well spent, which I am not.
[ Reply | More ]It's different if you're making the money vs. living off of dh's salary. I bet he feels differently than you do. He may not share it with you, but he does.
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