How much does it cost to live a quality happy life in America?

Question

The middle class in this country is really getting the short end of the stick. Rising gas prices, insurance company robbery, extremely high taxes, and other things that just cost is making it difficult to live a quality life. While this administration is giving tax cuts to the rich, it is going to have to be realized who really makes this place a wonderful place. It is not the government that makes this a great place, it is the workers(consumers and taxpayers).

Answer 1

It depends on a number of things - but two important factors are: where you live and your lifestyle. If you are the type of person who leases a vehicle or buys a new one every two-three years - you will always have a car payment. If yo must live in a "cool" city and place in that city, you will be paying more and getting less. Do you get your clothes at Target or Macy's - that will determine smaller or larger costs. I live in a small city about 50 miles from a large city. I make about $45K a year and I'm able to save 10% of my money every money (except at Christmas). I take at least four trips a year (usually drive) and I have what I think is a quality life. There is nothing I want to do that I am not doing. Life is sweet. Think about what you want and then go for it. Good luck.

Answer 2

Tax cuts to corporations give you jobs. If you want to see what taxing the rich does, look at France. They are a living example. Some goofy politicians decided they were going to stick it to the wealthy. ......the wealthy left......oooops....didn't plan on that....that sucks....what do we do now?
The rising gas prices are due to the demand on the world market. Look at your local walmart and see why china's economy is sucking up all the oil it can get and many more resources too.
You have a point in regards to Insurance companies that are making record profits, I can't believe people aren't hanging these ba$tards out to dry. I would like a logical business answer as to their excuse.

Answer 3

what it costs to have a quality life in america, or anywhere else in this endangered biosphere is to stop the super-overpaid super-overpowerful from sucking up almost all the wealth and power and freedom and democracy, and causing giant violence and unsafety

1% get 90% of world income - US$70 trillion a year - US$70,000 per family -

and do less than 1% of the work -

justice [peace] is equal pay for equal work - we have pay from a million times, to a 1000th of the average pay -

an injustice/ undemocracy/ slavery/ violence /escalation factor of one billion

the two nations: the one that does most of the work, the other that gets most of the pay

what it costs is to return to the wisdom of certain of the founding fathers of america and to the original american dream: limitation of fortunes to the maximum that a person can truly earn by work, not just rake

the raking economy is 20 times the making economy

what it costs is to grasp that there are many many wideopen legal ways [as well as the illegal ways] by which money is stolen from earners and goes into non-earners' pockets, that this is injustice, and that this causes violence, and that this violence is escalative, and that this violence escalation is racing to nuclear extinction

this is an enormous cost - to fight one's way through one's confused ideas back to one's commonsense - to admit one could be wrong! - to face the reality that we are in a very low quality life relative to our birthright happiness potential - this is an enormous cost - which no self-respecting ego will do -

plus, even if the person-destroying ego could be subdued, it would take a huge amount of cranking to get people's thinking-engines turning over sweetly -

even if people took advantage of all the thinking done for them at www.globalhappiness.org [not an org] and in the posts here of nigelbestpeace -

so we are stuck with giant violence, danger and misery racing to extinction

Answer 4

It depends on what is important to you. I feel like we are very happy and have a quality life. Our income is around 28K yearly.

I feel like part of the problem is the "middle class" have bought into the "buy now, pay later" lie. No, I don't like high gas prices, but because our vehicles and home are paid for, we haven't felt the pinch like someone with a huge mortgage and two car payments.

Answer 5

$100.000 per year. $50.000 is average for American middle class.

Answer 6

More and More every day.