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by spkthed 18y ago
If you look at the amount of interest you pay vs. the amount you can actually deduct and the total taxes you pay, it's far, far more expensive to have the mortgage with the tax credit than to simply own outright. If you get $2,500 in reduce
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by spkthed 18y ago
Ditto and I agree, it is awful.
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by spkthed 18y ago
I overcame the extremely poor, rural part and I can raise you being homeschooled, and, in an information-society on-paper at least, relatively uneducated. That's a bigger barrier than being Black to being part of societies norms. I was exp
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by spkthed 18y ago
That's assuming things that aren't fair. There's many people in the US educated by alternative schooling systems. Homeschooling produces excellent students as do private schools. Not everybody needs the government to help them succeed.
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by spkthed 18y ago
Point one: Right, but, depending upon whose numbers you use in 2018 we stop putting money into the trust fund and start pulling from it. Also, it's not really a trust fund. Excess funding does go into a trust fund but it is then lent to
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by spkthed 18y ago
Well, SS and Medicare are over 40% of the annual Federal budget and will quickly rise as the funding issues start appearing. SS is actually the biggest program and percentage of the annual budget we have. Medicare is second, defense is the
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by spkthed 18y ago
On the second point, that baseline is going to drop much, much lower unless they drastically raise taxes. We have what, 8 years until we start taking out more than is going in. On the third note, agreed. Medicare/Medicaid have massive pro
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by spkthed 18y ago
It may not technically be a Ponzi scheme but it is in effect. If you're not able to take out what you put in, you're losing money. If you work 40 years, putting in 12% of your salary (companies have to pay it, otherwise it would be part o