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- From: Brady_David@Tandem.Com (David Brady)
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- Subject: Re: Middle-class salary range
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.000951.2719@tandem.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 00:09:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.030840.12983@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com
- (bill nelson) writes:
- >Brady_David@Tandem.Com (David Brady) writes:
- >:
- >: Thanks for backing me up on this.
- >:
- >: Also, the first $25,000 (or so) of your income is taxed at one rate.
- >: Everything after that is taxed at a higher rate.
- >:
- >: A simple example (details left out!): I
- >:
- >: f I make $30,000 and S.O. is making $20,000...
- >:
- >: Single : ($45,000 * lower rate) + ( $5,000 * higher rate) = much lower
- taxes
- >: Married: ($25,000 * lower rate) + ($25,000 * higher rate) = much higher
- taxes
- >
- >There is a small difference - however, the government figures that a married
- >couple uses some things in common - so there is more that should be taxed.
- >
- >In your example, the married couple would pay about $900 more - rough figure
- >only. This takes into account such things as a common house and furnishings.
- >
- >I personally think the married tax rates are overly generous.
- >
- >Bill
- >
-
- Shall I read "overly generous" as "married people have it easier"? :-/ How
- would you change it?
-
- Actually, married couples where ONE person is working DO have it easier.
- (This, however, has been discussed to death here and I don't want to start a
- new thread on this....) Married couples where both work (and make relatively
- similiar salaries) have a harder time of it - tax wise, that is. My taxes went
- up significantly when I got married or, alternatively, my take home pay went
- down significantly.
-
- Also, $900 dollars - at least to me - is a significant amount. For me, that is
- a month's rent. (I must add that we lost more that $900 dollars when we were
- married. More like $2500. Which could be used to make a down payment on a
- house and back to the original point I was making - but I shan't continue....
- :-) )
-
- About "uses things in common": When I lived with my girlfriend (now my wife)
- we used things in common, but we weren't taxed for it. It seems like the
- additional tax burden which punishes people for being thrifty. If roommates
- can pool their resources (like college students or communes or best friends or
- whatever) to save money without a tax bite, why can't married people? Or
- should roommates be taxed like married people. That'll go down well.
-
- It'll be hard to convince me that I'm better off now (post marriage) - but you
- can keep on trying! :-)
-
- David
-