I don't think my comment to you was any more condescending than your comment to AdamSelene235 was. People with six figure incomes and no children pay a boatload in taxes, a good chunk of which goes to public schools for other people's children. Your comment to him that "You must have a lot of expenses" followed by boasting about all you do on less than $40,000 a year, sounded pretty snide, considering that he IS paying a good chunk of change to subsidize your public-schooled child. I commend you for not clawing even more out of taxpayer funds, but it's intellectually dishonest to claim to be self-supporting when you are availing yourself of more taxpayer-funded services than you pay for.
Exactly. People with children conveniently forget the rest of us are covering them too.
I wasn't boasting and wasn't being snide.
I pay the property taxes for my school district, so you are being intellectually dishonest by saying that he is paying for my kids since I am paying a share too every time I get a paycheck or write that mortgage check.
Sorry that he pays a boatload of taxes. I have an intense dislike for the current tax system and would like to see the IRS abolished altogether.
That said, if I was bringing home six figures, I wouldn't be saying that I wasn't certain of my ability to support children.
If you make that much money, you can certainly have and provide for a dozen children.
Unless you just can't bear to part with that 4th car you have parked in your garage. Then you better stick with just 6 kids. ;-D
That was a joke, but I intend it to show quite a bit of scorn for someone who openly posts about making six figures and then has the nerve to say that he isn't certain he can provide for kids.
That's just ridiculous.
OUCH.
So in your mind those of us paying taxes should NOT avail ourselves of such things as the public school system just because people that don't use them are also paying for them?