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"I saw this last week, and it&amp;#039;s taken several days of looking at it again in complete disbelief before I could form a few thoughts coherent enough to put into words. Check out this helpful graphic, courtesy of The Wall Street Journal, that illustrates how your taxes will be going up this year. You&amp;#039;ll notice I said &amp;quot;your&amp;quot; taxes and not mine, because I&amp;#039;m apparently a minority. Maybe even an extreme exception. Whatever they classify me, I obviously don&amp;#039;t fit on their chart. I&amp;#039;m just a college-degreed single working mother with two kids and a corporate job with a Fortune 500 company (plus a second job on top of that), and I make less than 1/5th of what they think I&amp;#039;m making. (Note to my boss: The Wall Street Journal says I should be making a lot, lot, lot more...) I look at the other income levels on this graphic and I don&amp;#039;t know whether to laugh or cry. I know very few retired couples scraping by on $180,000, do you? And that poor single girl, barely scraping by on $230,000. How will she be able to afford that new pair of designer shoes? Of course, it&amp;#039;s no wonder that so many married couples end up divorcing, fighting and squabbling over finances, when they&amp;#039;re living hand-to-mouth on a measly $650,000. I love the miserable looks they all have on their faces, too. The poor, poor dears. Reality. It&amp;#039;s a tough place to be. Maybe the folks at the Wall Street Journal should try visiting sometime. Let&amp;#039;s see a show of hands, readers. How many of you really make this kind of money? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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