We home school in the Bay Area on a nurse's salary.
I understand where you are coming from; it's called living within your means.
I suppose I feel that there are two factors which are problematic, and they are obvious to me and most others I'm sure.
1.)Activist judges must be reigned in. They are an oligarchy ruling by fiat, and have all but usurped the legislative process.
2.)The amount of taxation in this country is ridiculous, and money wasted on vote grabbing schemes would be best left in the hands of the people. Let's use an example; say we have a person who makes 4000/ month. After taxes, that is reduced down to close to 3000/ month. Maybe more depending on where you live, counting state, local, etc.
Now we take a person who makes 2000/ month. Not a whole lot. Current taxation can break such a person financially. I know I'm preaching to the choir perhaps, but my supposition is this.
Certain politicians scare people using the premise that they know how to spend money better than the individual. Any attempts to slash taxes are painted as 'radical' ideas. Keeping some bureaucrat's filthy hands out of my/ your pocket is a radical idea? Yet most people have been brainwashed into accepting this very premise.