Quote Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore View Post
Again it is not that easy, like I said California minimum wage, 40 hours a week, standard deduction, no kids, gets you in a position you CAN'T ESCAPE federal income taxes, not even with the earned income credit (and yet that *IS* poor, I'm definitely going to define living here on minimum wage as poor ok). Those who escape federal income taxes might be poor but claiming all the poor are escaping federal income taxes is just not true. I think people who criticize "people not paying taxes" think it's about poor people, but they are actually criticising deductions, since that is what makes the tax rate zero, just being poor is not going to do it.
Damn, I just looked up California Minimum Wage = $8/hr.
That's $64 a day. $320 a week. $16,640 Gross over 52 weeks in calendar year.

..... So blood CAN be squeezed from a turnip!

That's just not right to me.