50% of families.

It’s even worse in the UK bredrin.

Dear God if you saw the poverty near where I live …

Solution:

Don’t get marry, nor have bastards, and learn a trade.

Notice poverty is most severe in bluest states with the most social welfare spending and highest tax rates, like Washington and Oregon, and the more they tax the worse it gets.

This right here gets to the crux of it:

For instance, in Seattle’s King County, the annual household survival budget for a family of four (including one infant and one preschooler) in 2016 was nearly $85,000. This would require an hourly wage of $42.46. But in Washington State, only 14% of jobs pay more than $40 an hour.

Roughly 1 in 7 jobs, total, provide a salary/hourly wage above the base cost of living in the county. Seattle has a 10% sales tax rate. Seattle is also planning a $275 tax on employers per employee.

So yeah. More socialism, that’ll fix the socialism problem making all these states poor.

Faust For Science wrote:

MG-ɹǝʍo┴ wrote:

Poverty is here to stay! Only the wealthy had a recovery, the rest of us not so fortunate! I made the adjustment, now I only spend bare minimum with everything else going to expenses to make more money. I did all the right things and still got f~~~ed! I don’t know how the idiots that p~~~ money away survive!

With the Trump tax cuts, next year the working poor will be able to deduct up to ten thousand dollars on their state and local taxes. That is a lot of money for these people and this will help get them on their feet.

The ten grand is the limit. There didn’t used to be a limit. That wasn’t a give-away to the poor. It’s a trade off to the rich for lowering their tax rate. It’s also a punishment to blue states that didn’t vote for him since they have the highest taxes.

TaxGuy wrote:

The ten grand is the limit. There didn’t used to be a limit. That wasn’t a give-away to the poor. It’s a trade off to the rich for lowering their tax rate. It’s also a punishment to blue states that didn’t vote for him since they have the highest taxes.

It’s more like a gradual nudge to tip them just a little bit closer to fiscal failure. 4D chess, I don’t care what anybody else says.

The numbers were not true under obama, they are not now. They don’t cover people not out of the job market for the long term, the ones who have been unemployed so long they are off benefits.

JustAnotherGuy wrote:

Seattle is also planning a $275 tax on employers per employee.

And employers are already walking away from that s~~~.

TaxGuy wrote:

It’s also a punishment to blue states that didn’t vote for him since they have the highest taxes.

Punishment?

Naw. It’s just stopping taxpayers in low tax states from subsidizing high tax states.

The previous system actually rewarded tax and spend liberal states. Making things fair by ending those unjust rewards is not punishment.

Is f~~~ing sad what socialists turned US into !!

‘Shelter line stretchin’ across the corner. Welcome to the New World Order

The highway is alive tonight. Nobody’s kidding nobody as to where it goes.

I’m sitting down here by the campfire light, with the ghost of Tom Joad’

(© B. Springsteen)

BTW: There are those that are not surprised by the current socio economic state of the world today. Because they are the ones that systematically and methodically orchestrated it all.