$165.79
By BigGator5 Posted in Taxes — Comments (11) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
So I got paid yesterday. I open up the pay-check and there under the total taxes was this nice little number:
$165.72
'Good grief!' I think to myself. 'Did I really work over 18 hours for the US Government?'
Don't get me wrong, I get nice pay and I love my job. In the grand scale of things, it really isn't that much and I do love this country. However I begin to think about what $165.72 can get me....
-Could get food, if I don't buy unnecessity stuff and didn't go out to eat.
-I can get a little over 42 gallons of gas (based off current retail gas prices).
-I could pay for my web-site and car isurance for a month or pay-off a little of my student loan.
-A Fujifilm Finepix S700 7.1MP Digital Camera with 10x Optical Zoom (dreams a little dream). I know this is priced just a little more than what was taken out of my pay-check, but it's bloody close.
-Season One of Battlestar Galactica on DVD. (ummm... Grace Park...)
So, what could you get for $165.72?
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...or were you referring to dinner at McDonalds?
Seriously, with what I've been reading about the cost of living in London and the dollar/pound (or are they on euros, now?) exchange rate, I really would be surprised that you could get a good dinner for a night out with your husband at that price.
1 Pound=$2.04 when we were there last weekend. Ouch!
Honestly, we do better with the euro and Germany isn't quite as ridiculous. I can feed my whole family here in Germany, with two beers/wine (one for me and one for hubby) for about $100.
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Just a typical, small town, British-American girl...
It can get worse - that will only get you a burger and (maybe) fries in Oslo.
Anyway, c17, I'd suggest that you go to Albania instead - it's less expensive, safer, and they REALLY like Americans there....
for my boat. Trouble is, it needs almost three thirds right now. In Vino Veritas
in cameras and actresses :)
I could get a DXG-569VS. It's cheap but I could get some things done in 720p while I'm working towards a nicer camera.
20 school lunches for each step son, or about 1 months worth for all of them.
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people."
A. Lincoln
"Don't get me wrong, I get nice pay and I love my job."
Dude...Come work for me..I pay my helpers 12.50/hr
"40 million American households with McCain are generally happier
than those people in households that don't have McCain."
Actually, I make 9/hr, but I had some over-time.
You'll really hire me, speciallist? What do you do and where are you located?
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