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Mr.Bill

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95. Thank you for your informative posts in this thread.

Sun Jan 5, 2025, 01:28 PM

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Of course, you are not a typical American (no one is), and your income is obviously much higher than mine. I am resigned to live in the USA because I know I can't afford to move, and speak no foreign languages. My wife and I are under the threshold income-wise of paying any taxes, state or federal. We are 71 and 73 and live on my grandson's property and we make the payment on our manufactured home, which is about the market value it would rent for. We are not rich, but comfortable.

The biggest inequity we are experiencing is my wife's pension is around $800 a month. This is her "reward" for spending 40 years in nursing, much of it in unions. Her brother retired from being a firefighter at 55 with a pension of over $10,000 a month after taxes are deducted. I think I don't have to explain to you that RNs take much more risk daily at work than firefighters do periodically.

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