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Re:The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than M... by trey-jones on Monday August 26, 2019 @03:00PM (#20802634)
Isn't the system broken if getting a raise is actually the opposite? I'm in the same situation in Georgia: We actually have a pretty great program through Medicaid that provides free health insurance for kids 6 and under and a very low rate for kids older than that.

All 3 of my kids are on it. My salary is just under the limit for a household of 5.

I would love to make more money, but it would have to be a raise of about 20% to cover the difference in premium for my kids to be on my private insurance plan. I'm thankful for the program. Without it, I was forking over 20% of my salary to the health insurance company. It seems stupid to allow myself to fall in that margin, no?

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Re:The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than M... by thehappypm on Monday August 26, 2019 @03:05PM (#20802696)
It's clearly a flawed system when a person is incentivized to be a tax burden on other taxpayers instead of making more income.
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Re:The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than M... by reagank on Monday August 26, 2019 @03:47PM (#20803031)
It’s a flawed system when human individuals are treated like “tax burdens”
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Re:The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than M... by mumblemumble on Monday August 26, 2019 @04:27PM (#20803420)
It seems like exactly the kind of system you get when people are more worried about who to blame for X than they are about how to make X better.
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Re:The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than M... by trey-jones on Monday August 26, 2019 @04:43PM (#20803556)
Hmm, but I also pay Georgia income tax. Indeed there are a lot of government programs funded by income tax that I do not take advantage of. I'm not sure if you're trying to make me feel like a tax burden or not, but... I don't feel bad.
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