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Originally Posted by Charlatan
flstf... $3000 seems like a very small number. How much do you and your wife make each year?
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That is just state and local taxes, add to that federal income taxes, sales taxes and other various license fees etc... for the total tax bill which is much higher. Since I was laid off about 9 years ago I have been unemployed and we have been living by withdrawing from our savings which varies from year to year. The $3000 for state and local taxes is the amount probably most used along with sales taxes to help pay for state and local public employee benefits etc.. which are members of the public unions being discussed here.
A few thousand dollars in our world is a lot of money to buy others benefits when we cannot afford our own.