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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (353425)10/3/2007 2:01:24 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) of 1577014
 
re: Should someone working at McDonald's have to subsidize the costs of children of parents who make several times more than he does? (Up to $82,600 for a family of four).

They already do... taxes for education. Why should I be taxed for education when I don't have kids?

I'll trust that the $82K number is correct (without confidence). What's the after-tax take home on that? How much does insurance cost per month for a family of four? Rent/mortgage payments? Clothes, food, utilities, transportation?

$82K gross for a family of four is anything but "upper middle class" in almost all of this country.

And BTW if you looked at the 60% that already had insurance then you would probably find that 95% of those are employee provided so they didn't participate in the government program. So the "four previously uninsured Americans for the price of 10" is pure deceptive rhetoric.
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