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Are we working extra hours just for those 155M jobless and food-stampers?
http://rt.com/usa/156800-americans-economy-unemployed-work/
http://www.trivisonno.com/food-stamps-charts
As a middle class I work about 60~70 hours a week, and been taxed heavily. When I read news of these I feel that half of my working hours are for those jobless and food-stampers, I suddenly feel awful and hopeless.
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- nostrademons 12y agoYou have the option of saying no to those 60-70 hours/week and swapping places with the jobless and food-stampers, if you think they're getting a better deal. (On a side note, the figures in the first link are very misleading, as they include all those not in the labor force. That includes children, retirees, stay-at-home parents, long-term disabled, folks in the hospital with cancer, etc. in addition to the unemployed. It's very likely that you were included in those figures for more than half of your lifetime.)
- msie 12y agoWhat type and how much tax have you been paying? Federal? State?
- chrisbennet 12y agoLets do some back of the envelope calculations: - US taxes paid in 2013: $5.4 trillion [1] - Number of tax returns filed in 2013: 134,349,000 [2] This works out to $N per tax return. N = (5.4 x 1000000000000) / 134,349,000 N = $40,193 Sooo, if your tax return had you paying less than $40K in taxes you may be a "freeloader" since you are not paying your share. ;-) [1] http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/total_2013USrt_15rs1n http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/total_2013USrt_15rs1n [2] http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/Filing-Season-Statistics-May-10,-2013 http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/Filing-Season-Statistics-May...