Mentioning that test is a perfect example of how people will jump through all sorts of seemingly logical hoops to justify doing what they ultimately wanted to do in the first place.

Probably spend more on insurance than you spent on the bike though.

When was the last time anyone complained about poor people that don’t have kids?

The stat you’re referring to is an average and it suffers from the same problem as per capita healthcare spending.

As interest rates continue to rise home prices will necessarily come down as it becomes more difficult/expensive to borrow. Home pricing is cyclical now. It has been that way probably since the dot com bubble was forming.

Yeah that’s what I thought. You can’t do it because it didn’t happen. 

Identify the lie.

Where’s the lie?

I’m out of touch because I can google, read, and do basic math? Is it because I know real poor people and don’t care for the whiny, entitled, middle/upper middle class nonsense that comes out of a lot of people in GMG commenter land?

Presumably we’re not talking about a 60k house so you hypothetically borrowed money and that money was not financed at 0%. There’s an opportunity cost on handing 60k over to a bank. There are carrying costs associated with homeownership too. Sure, you might have 200k in equity in a decade but how much did that 200k in…

“And let me tell you, 40K take home is the new poor.”

It was actually an honest question since you and four other people seem to think that there’s a magical difference between shareholders and owners but I guess 0/10 is where you guys’ level of understanding is.

You realize that the sole reason that contractor roles exist is as a (relatively short sighted) cost control tool right? If companies stopped using contractors as a way to manage costs they’d have no use for contractors.

Compensation refers to your total package. Pay refers to your cash. Most of those executives’ comp is overwhelmingly in the form of RSUs and relatively little cash.

Your company isn’t gonna have an owner?

“Your points are valid, but the subset of people who will take that rent/buy monthly variance and actually invest are small. They’re the exception, not the rule.”

“Whatever that motivation was is immaterial.”

It’s not sort of unfair it’s completely unfair. The only fair ways to distribute tax burden is equally (x/330,000,000) or according to consumption. Somehow people can figure this out when a group goes out to dinner but when the federal government is involved suddenly “fair” gets redefined.

“I work 40 hours a week therefore I should be able to afford the American dream”

America’s federal tax problem stems from the fact that 80% of the population doesn’t contribute much of anything to the pot but has an insatiable appetite for more.