Suburb of Sacramento, CA
Average monthly salary: I make about $4k per month...not sure what everyone else makes but its probably more or less close to that(maybe a little less)
2 bedroom apartment rent: $1000
Average house price: $170k
Big Mac Menu: $6.50
Volkswagen Golf: $19-22k...
Yes, but at least we can export our inflation to them. Thats the good thing about when a creditor nation pegs their currency to yours. You can print like hell, and barely see prices rise because you have another 1.6 billion people eatting your inflation.
Yeah increase the price of everything 30%. We will never notice.
(Also VAT is a consumption tax and consumption expenditures are just under 10T of our 14T gdp, so you better increase that VAT to 37%)
Yeah, happened to me too when I was 19. My car got broke into 3 times because they wanted some speakers worth $100. I had one of those Honda CRX's back then which is a 2 seater hatchback with a really big back window. They would bust the window and it would cost $1,300 to fix it. The 3rd...
If it makes you feel better, there is a downside to being poor & on welfare.
1. You have no money to buy luxuries like a new iphone, big screen TV, a new computer, or even go on vacation. You basically just stay home and do nothing because you have no money to do anything.
2. The place...
Liberals are just plain sick in the head. For over 2 years Sarah Palin has been a private citizen....not a politician. When she was a politician she only affected her state that has a tiny population of 710k people, yet there are millions of liberals like this guy who think SHE is somehow...
We just need one brave person to go right up to his car and shoot him in the head. I can think of only one person with enough balls to do this....
THIS WOMAN!
Yeah, but up to $29 Billion dollars per year is smuggled into mexico....Catch a few of those guys and dont report/under report the amount of money recovered and you could retire the next day. :P
http://www.redbox.com/pricechange?om_rid=CF27VP&cid=EM%3A_BOqbzyB8d$CUnr
Thats the way to get market share nowadays...set really low prices where you cant make a profit...put your competitor like blockbuster out of business, then raise prices. This time next year it will be $2 for a movie...
He would say "Give to Ceasar what is Ceasars. Give to God, what is Gods"
As far as how much we should be taxed....well here is a biblical word for you & its definition.
"Tithe"
noun
1.
Sometimes, tithes. the tenth part of agricultural produce or personal income set apart as an...
He makes a good point. If you spend $500 per month on things like clothes and household stuff, that would be $500 per month going towards American jobs. Just getting 1,000 people to do that and you put $500,000 per month into american jobs.