[Glenn]

But then again we have no debt to speak of either.

That's a killer. Without a monsterous mortgage, you are less likely to have enough deductions to get you past the standard limit, in my observation. It's pretty stacked against the upper middle class. I pay the IRS more than 25% of my income every year. Then there is the state, local, school, phone, road...

Everybody wants a piece of me.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Without a monsterous mortgage, you are less likely to have enough deductions to get you past the standard limit, in my observation.

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Don't forget state income tax and property tax.

[blackdog]

Farming works well for us. I figure I make about a dollar ten an hour and work eighty hour weeks in a good year after expenses, reinvestment, and improvements.

I don't think I could ever work a regular job in the traditional sense ever again.