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<blockquote data-quote="aestus" data-source="post: 2004455" data-attributes="member: 2989"><p>I'm sorry, but if people honestly believe there is no incentive to go from making $10 an hour to $15 an hour or any other job that offers a higher salary, then those people are predisposed to failing at life and complaining no matter what. Honestly, all I hear is excuses and a reason just to blame the government.</p><p></p><p>I've scraped by as little as $200 a month to now making six figures. At no point in my life have I ever felt "penalized" for making more money or felt that the jump into the next tax bracket ever halted me from progressing financially or created a decline in my standard of living. If anything, my progress has made me want to do more and make more money, not less. Not because .Gov is stealing from me and I feel that I have to "make up" for the higher taxes, but because I enjoy success and the fruits that it brings and more money offers me more opportunities for growth. </p><p></p><p>In the last 5 years of my life, I've been able to raise my salary an average of $10k a year. I went from living in an apartment to buying a house in uptown in a historic district. When I jumped from $37k to $54k, I utilized the extra money to invest and learned what extra money affords me to do like lowering my tax bracket through retirement accounts and various other ways of savings. The fact that I was a new home owner resulted in higher tax returns back and allowed me to adjust so I can have less taxes taken out. With each additional increase, it allowed me more freedom to expand my entrepreneurial interests and also start a technology / entrepreneurial community organization and coworking space in downtown OKC. I've worked in small companies, large corporations and have been involved as an owner or officer in smaller LLC's and have made payroll to employees, even sometimes out of pocket. .Gov or taxes had little to do with the failures or successes of each.</p><p></p><p>I'm now to the point where I'm nearing the red zone of "butthurt" if I continue to increase my income. Bitching about being moved to a higher tax bracket is one thing, but to actually halt from progressing forward and declining more income is outright stupid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aestus, post: 2004455, member: 2989"] I'm sorry, but if people honestly believe there is no incentive to go from making $10 an hour to $15 an hour or any other job that offers a higher salary, then those people are predisposed to failing at life and complaining no matter what. Honestly, all I hear is excuses and a reason just to blame the government. I've scraped by as little as $200 a month to now making six figures. At no point in my life have I ever felt "penalized" for making more money or felt that the jump into the next tax bracket ever halted me from progressing financially or created a decline in my standard of living. If anything, my progress has made me want to do more and make more money, not less. Not because .Gov is stealing from me and I feel that I have to "make up" for the higher taxes, but because I enjoy success and the fruits that it brings and more money offers me more opportunities for growth. In the last 5 years of my life, I've been able to raise my salary an average of $10k a year. I went from living in an apartment to buying a house in uptown in a historic district. When I jumped from $37k to $54k, I utilized the extra money to invest and learned what extra money affords me to do like lowering my tax bracket through retirement accounts and various other ways of savings. The fact that I was a new home owner resulted in higher tax returns back and allowed me to adjust so I can have less taxes taken out. With each additional increase, it allowed me more freedom to expand my entrepreneurial interests and also start a technology / entrepreneurial community organization and coworking space in downtown OKC. I've worked in small companies, large corporations and have been involved as an owner or officer in smaller LLC's and have made payroll to employees, even sometimes out of pocket. .Gov or taxes had little to do with the failures or successes of each. I'm now to the point where I'm nearing the red zone of "butthurt" if I continue to increase my income. Bitching about being moved to a higher tax bracket is one thing, but to actually halt from progressing forward and declining more income is outright stupid. [/QUOTE]
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