Bullshot
Well-known member
Finished filing and then I made a mistake today and added up all the taxes (Federal/State/Local) we paid in 2025. It was eye opening and eye watering. It virtually eliminated the point of my wife working, and cost us twice as much in a year as it is costing to pay a year of our daughters private college tuition. We live in a very high cost state. Between the two of us (she is a teacher, I work in the environmental / land use field (traditionally not the highest paying jobs compared to all the ppl in finance, pharma, law, and medicine around here) we are "fortunate" to make enough money to not qualify for virtually any govt tax break, federal tuition assistance, or subsidy of any kind, but the joke's on us. Makes us feel we'd be better off losing one of our jobs to put us back in a more advantageous bracket. I am so discouraged, but it explains so much about why it seems we work so hard but only feel we are falling a little further behind each year. Just venting. Wow. Happy tax filing week to all.
