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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 02:32:15 GMT, "Gerry Carter"
<gerrycarter@home.com> wrote:
>
>Ah, here is the major problem - you are talking US, and I am talking Canada.
>Your $30k is about $45k here; your taxes are lower; you can deduct mortgage
>interest; you are taxed on family income, not individual income; etc.  The
>list goes on.

I had no idea you were speaking about Canada. Sorry about that. 
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>And I am well aware of the real world.  I do not suggest that $80k would
>fall at the low end of the scale, but I do believe that $80k (CDN, in Canada
>VBG) may be near the high end of comfortable, but is still far from rich
>(especially at a 50% marginal tax rate!!!), and still does not deserve the
>abuse heaped by some in these newsgroups.
>
>It appears that our disagreement is not on the principle involved, but
>merely on where lies the line.
>
>Once again, though, that line is not really what I am primarily concerned
>with here; it is the attitude expressed by some that they are entitled to my
>paycheck, and I that am being unreasonable if I ever request some of it
>back.  I view this as a disfunctional attitude whether I am making $10k or
>$100k or $1,000k.

I agree with you here.

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