>make 300k>PAY 100K IN TAXES>STILL can't afford to buy a house (in cash, like Grandpa did)fuck this broken society
>>544087143>the tax(((berg)))
>>544087143Americans have to prove they're not brown migrants before they can get sympathy anymore.
>>544087143Grandpa didn't pay in cash. I get the cost of living is higher, but the whole "my grandparents bought a house for a packet of almonds meme" is overdone. They worked harder jobs, longer hours, and took home less pay than you and they did it because life wasn't handed to them. Fucking get over it, princes.
>>544087333>the whole "my grandparents bought a house for a packet of almonds meme" is overdonekys
>>544087388Literally a skill issue.
>>544087333Hes talking about boomers not your grandpa, unc.
>>544087423Cope.
>>544087399find a stake and shove it up your ass GPT scum
>>544087143Oh well. In 100 years times you'll be dead and none of it will matter so I wouldn't worry too much about it.
>>544087333>LiesStop being jewish.
>>544087388who the fuck makes less than 50k/y
>>544087333Nigger, a janitor in 1900 made the equivalent of a neurosurgeon in 2026.You literally had to *not* want a house to end up without a house. Houses were even *given* to people because middle class could afford multiple houses and could just gift them like it was nothing >Oprah telling her audience to look under their chair>A HOUSE FOR YOU >AND YOU >AND ALL OF YOU People literally gave other people a HOUSE the way some people today will give someone a used car.
>>544087462No u>>544087546>It was real in my mind
>>544087143I make $994/ month disability check. Roughly $196/ month food stamps. Inherited by trailer and 2 acres after my grampa passed back in 2021. My groceries average about $180/ month, my electric ~$70 most the year, goes up to aboit $90 during summer cause AC. Rural life is pretty comfy if you're a disabled poor fag on gubermint gimmes with your own place.
>>544087143Just try to buy a house similar to the one grandpa bought, some wooden shack i.e.
>>544087794>said Grandpa's $1500 wooden shack
>>544087482ThisRe-fied down to 2.375%Now my payment is half what renters pay around here.who cares where it ends?lmao
Taxes are actually 45%. You also pay when you purchase something
>>544087143Literally me, you cant even grind hard enough because you just hit a tax wall where youre paying 50% income tax
>>544087388Those numbers are fucking fake.My parents paid 250,000 for their house in 1980.And another 50k for the plot.
>>544087920Just stop paying taxes if that doesn’t work stop making money go in woods become guerilla fighter
>>544087848>woodsorry I don't want my house made with child playground materials
>>544087143If you are taking home 200k/year after tax and still can't afford a home you are financially retarded.
>>544087848I wonder if my lawn mower and gardening tools would all fit in that small shack.
>>544087972you forget americans need to pay 15 different types of insurance each monththe new normal gas pricesfood inflation etc
>>544087143I know, right? It's crazy that Northern European countries have similar or only slightly higher taxes, but health care, education, childcare and public transit are all free, and their people get to retire with dignity and nobody loses their home just because they get sick. If America is so advanced, what the fuck are they spending all that money on?
>>544087143sounds like a you problem, goy- I mean loserthanks for your attention t. DJT
>>544087333>He quit his stenographer's job to work at Robertson's Drug Store, where he rose to become head soda jerk on $80 (equivalent to $1,455 in 2025) per week.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Howard99 YEARS AGO A FUCKING SODA JERK IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE TEXAS MADE THE EQUIVALENT OF $75,000 A YEAR AND HAD A CHEAPER COST OF LIVING
>>544088004Purchasing power has been reduced by 50% in the last 6 years alone.
>>544088004No I'm not forgetting that, 200k/year puts you firmly in the top 5% of earners in the USA, this is what doctors and lawyers make. If you can't afford a house with that salary you are genuinely fucking retarded, no amount of money can save someone that stupid.
>>544087928How much would it sell for today if it were new? Hard mode: Don't lie
>>544088049And Americans work 80 hours a week while we work 40-50
>>544087848Anon isn't wrong. A large Victorian house with electricity, heat and plumbing cost like 5000$ in 1950. Of course, everything in society was cheaper and better because huge companies paid 91% marginal tax rate and rich fucks weren't allowed to simply take their millions and buy their own stock. (Thanks REAGAN!)
>>544088072At least we have niggers
>>544087920Pay 50% in Sweden and get everything you need for free and you never have to worry about being poor when you're old
>>544087333Amazing how retarded boomers can never adjust for inflation and realize how full of shit they are.>>544087143Welcome to the fiat currency scam. We should all just start demanding an automatic payment from the federal reserve whenever they print money as they know it's going straight to making the rich into the super rich instead of actually being used by real people as intended.
>>544087143cool story bro, but did your grandpa had mobile phones, computers, internet?today you have way more things, yep disadvantage is houses are expensive, but you live in way better times than your grandpa. I remember just 90s when i was kid how ultra boring it was, since we have internet there was not even one day i would be bored whole dayi rather live today without house, than in the past with a house
>>544087143The OP fails to include that everything you buy is also taxed. In terms of tax receipts it counts for the seller, but for (you) it still means everything is artificially made expensive. If you count average 20% (in europe, don't know in the US) you're well into >50% total tax rates.
>>544088277>real peopleyou're just a cog in the machine
>>544087143I bought a house making 70k/yr 10 years again. I don't think you're u make 300k a year
>>544088277if you need more money for some reason then get second and third jobi dont, i work in job where i dont even have to do much, the pay is ultra low because of it, but that is ok, i dont have to own and have everything to be happyIf you want a house you can work hard and make more money and then you can get the house, i dont, i dont own anyting i dont even want to own anything and im happy
>>544088438yeah but which house anonwe all know american houses are made of cardboard
>>544087630>a janitor in 1900 made the equivalent of a neurosurgeon in 2026.This is... requiring some substantial documentation...
People seem to forget that the United States already has one of the most progressive tax brackets in the entire world. The top 10 percent of earners pay more than 99 percent of the income tax. Politicians have been floating the idea of ending income tax for people below the median income for a while now because it literally would not make any difference at all to let them keep more of their money and would likely help to jump start dying areas of the economy.
>>544088347The Founders revolted for less.
>>544088756didn't trump say he would use tariff revenue to eliminate the federal income tax?how is that going?
>>544088756>has one of the most progressive tax brackets in the entire world.No it doesn't, you guys just have the most wealth inequality.
>>544087143> can't afford to buy a home in cash with $180k+ annual incomeWhat kind of a nigger are you?
>>544088617In 1900, a janitor in the United States typically earned between 10 to 15 cents per hour, which roughly aligned with the baseline wages of general, unskilled laborers of the eraBecause workweeks during this period were long—averaging 60 hours per week (typically 10 hours a day, 6 days a week)—a standard janitorial wage translated to the following breakdown• Weekly Wage: $6.00 to $9.00• Annual Salary: Around $300 to $450 per yearIn 1900, the official U.S. gold price was $20.67 per troy ounce, fixed by the Gold Standard Act$375 average wage / $20.67 per troy oz = 18.142235123 troy oz per annum per janitor10-10-26 Live Gold Price in USD per Troy Ounce: $4,195.02so in 1900 a janitor in the United States made $17,598,192.8004 per year
>>544087848> “At the price quoted, we will furnish all the material to build this five-room bungalow, consisting of mill work, medicine case, lumber, lath, shingles, porch ceiling, siding, flooring, finishing lumber, building paper, eaves through, downspout, sash weights, hardware, and painting material. We guarantee enough material to build this house. Price does not include cement, brick, or plaster.”How much for the missing items, and the labor of turning components into a house?>a historical wage reference for general full-time non-governmental workers in 1923 ($1,428 annually)
>>544088049> their people get to retire with dignityLmao, each EU country is right now struggling with the question of how much of the monthly pension allowances should be cut right away to stop French style spiralling.The immediate minimum needs are at least 10%, and further cut needs would only follow the upcoming decade, because women were not shamed to be birth factories & families compensated accordingly since early 90s.
>>544089108gee what an amazing idea to promise infinite money to people who no longer workand birth rates below replacement on top of everythingenjoy the africans
>>544087143+8.25% sales tax; 47.55%
>>544088526Sheer strength comes with the sheathing. Strong wind loads before sheathing and cladding is built will cause failure. Therefore it is usually sheathed floor by floor. Someone wanting to beat some daft deadline took a shortcut here, and got an expensive lesson.I live in a wooden house built in 1946. It has withstood yearly north Atlantic hurricanes.
>>544089084>a historical wage reference for general full-time non-governmental workers in 1923 ($1,428 annually)So it took gramps ONE (1) year to get a 5 room house literally delivered to him.Now, a literal doctor would have to work 5 years to get an average house in an average city saving every penny POST tax.Average guy? Suicide-tier. What a joke of a planet
>>544089416good for you anonI'd rather not have a house made with flammable materials we are in 2026
>>544088958>>544088438>>544088101these imbeciles think (((financing))) a house is equivalent to actually owning one.
>>544087143The sooner we revolt the sooner we can rape any woman we want.rape rape rape
>>544089489usa lets retards have way too much powerhow the fuck do they let you get a loan on a house that you're still paying?
>>544087388liberals saying they cant afford shitmeanwhile IMMIGRANTS WELCOMEdo they just expect them to sleep on the streets and hunt food?
>>544088969I legitimately am having difficulty grasping the amount we've had stolen from us.
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