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Originally Posted by DirtyProfits
It's funny how people like you take everything for granted, i.e. infrastructure, public transportation, police etc. but are not willing to pay for those benefits.
Obviously nobody likes to pay taxes but think about it this way. If you really make 500k per annum you probably have still about 10 times more money after taxes than the average person in the USA, not even talking about the majority of the world's population that lives in 3rd world countries.
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Dont get me wrong I truly appreciate these things - but I also know how incredibly wasteful government spending is. Especially as student, seeing the kind of grants professors received for complete BULLSHIT research makes me sick to the stomach. My friend was bring paid $25/hr counting beetles during a government summer job, and he proudly claimed he only worked 1/10th of the time he was getting paid.
Regardless.. I want to retire by the time im 25. Having half my money go away each year means its going to take twice as much time to be able to do so.. and thats not even factoring the interest of the money im losing as well.