how rich or poor are you?

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zCypher

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Originally posted by: Ylen13
Originally posted by: CadetLee
Originally posted by: Ylen13
Originally posted by: CadetLee
Originally posted by: Ylen13
Originally posted by: RobCur
Originally posted by: Booster
I'm more poor than you might think... I'm a poor man, very poor. If you could see how bad I live your eyes would fill with tears, I got absolutely no doubts about that :(
I feel for you, its because of a low paying job. The rich do not always report exactly what they earn, if they make 10,000, they will say only 1000, so they pay less taxes which why they are wealthy. That's the trick my friend, you folk are just to honest about everything, this is why poor will always be poor. What do I consider rich? when you have more then enough to spend and buy all the thing you like and not worry about $$$.

would you consider making $200,000 being rich?

...heck yes...that's nearly 4x my dad's income last year..and we have 7 people in our family.

Wow how do you survive on such small income?

We don't drive $80,000 cars...we live in a 2000sqft house..and we don't spend a lot of money. If I did make that much, I probably wouldn't live much differently than I do now..but instead of a '98 Corolla, I'd have an early-mid 90s MR2 Turbo and Cobra or Saleen 'stang. :p

we don't drive $80000 cars we do live in 3000sgft brand new house and we still are in deapth. But we do speend alot of money on food, new furntiure etc so i wonder how u manage to have $50000 and not speend alot of money
maybe cause 50000 bucks isn't a lot of money over a year
 

Zim Hosein

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Poor enough that I'm eating "retard sandwiches" for dinner :p
 

SuperTool

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Didn't get any benefit from Dubya's tax cut, yet I pay 30+% of my salary in taxes, so I assume I am in the middle class ;)
 

Koing

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student.

need I say anymore?
 

Koing

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for the guy that says how does he manage to spend $50k its over a year period and theres 7 people that has to share it. The $50k is his dads I believe. That makes out to be about £35k and that is quite a bit of money in England for one person. But for a family of 7 its going to be hard.

Like me I've never been on a family holiday together. May go at the end of this year if we're lucky. Cars are old also but nothing wrong with that. They ride alright and go from A to B. Of course if I had money I'd get a dam fine car :D
 

amnesiac

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Originally posted by: RobCur

I feel for you, its because of a low paying job. The rich do not always report exactly what they earn, if they make 10,000, they will say only 1000, so they pay less taxes which why they are wealthy. That's the trick my friend, you folk are just to honest about everything, this is why poor will always be poor. What do I consider rich? when you have more then enough to spend and buy all the thing you like and not worry about $$$.

My parents just paid $35,000 in taxes this month. Do you think we're underrreporting income too?
rolleye.gif
 

heartsurgeon

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Aug 18, 2001
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depends..

i don't have as much as i want

i probably have more than i need.

so i guess i'm rich and poor at the same time
 

tm37

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Originally posted by: RobCur
Originally posted by: Booster
I'm more poor than you might think... I'm a poor man, very poor. If you could see how bad I live your eyes would fill with tears, I got absolutely no doubts about that :(
I feel for you, its because of a low paying job. The rich do not always report exactly what they earn, if they make 10,000, they will say only 1000, so they pay less taxes which why they are wealthy. That's the trick my friend, you folk are just to honest about everything, this is why poor will always be poor. What do I consider rich? when you have more then enough to spend and buy all the thing you like and not worry about $$$.

You really shouldn't discuss thing that you don't have a clue about.
 

jlee

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Sep 12, 2001
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Originally posted by: Koing
for the guy that says how does he manage to spend $50k its over a year period and theres 7 people that has to share it. The $50k is his dads I believe. That makes out to be about £35k and that is quite a bit of money in England for one person. But for a family of 7 its going to be hard.

Like me I've never been on a family holiday together. May go at the end of this year if we're lucky. Cars are old also but nothing wrong with that. They ride alright and go from A to B. Of course if I had money I'd get a dam fine car :D

Yep...once you take out taxes, mortgage, food, electric, etc, there's not much left..
 

Ylen13

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Sep 18, 2001
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Originally posted by: amnesiac
Originally posted by: RobCur

I feel for you, its because of a low paying job. The rich do not always report exactly what they earn, if they make 10,000, they will say only 1000, so they pay less taxes which why they are wealthy. That's the trick my friend, you folk are just to honest about everything, this is why poor will always be poor. What do I consider rich? when you have more then enough to spend and buy all the thing you like and not worry about $$$.

My parents just paid $35,000 in taxes this month. Do you think we're underrreporting income too?
rolleye.gif

wow that is alot even my parents paid less then that.

i would sugest they talk to accountest and start paying taxes every quater so reduce how much tax they have to pay at the end of the year.
 

amnesiac

Lifer
Oct 13, 1999
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Originally posted by: Ylen13
Originally posted by: amnesiac
Originally posted by: RobCur

I feel for you, its because of a low paying job. The rich do not always report exactly what they earn, if they make 10,000, they will say only 1000, so they pay less taxes which why they are wealthy. That's the trick my friend, you folk are just to honest about everything, this is why poor will always be poor. What do I consider rich? when you have more then enough to spend and buy all the thing you like and not worry about $$$.

My parents just paid $35,000 in taxes this month. Do you think we're underrreporting income too?
rolleye.gif

wow that is alot even my parents paid less then that.

i would sugest they talk to accountest and start paying taxes every quater so reduce how much tax they have to pay at the end of the year.

You don't know the whole story. A big chunk of it is property taxes. We own 35 separate rental properties and that was a major source of it.

Our accountant is one of the best and has been doing our taxes for 30+ years. I don't know where we'd be without him.
 

HappyPuppy

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Apr 5, 2001
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Ambiguous question. You need to provide some definitions. Bill Gates has a ton of money, but that doesn't, in my book, mean he's rich.
 

Quixfire

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Above Average, thanks to all the scams I ran against the poor, homeless, and middle class income brackets.