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Originally Posted by WCan_Kid
Sure, but who's to say Ironhorse didn't go through that same thing before deciding to sacrifice for a few more years in order to have kids?
Work through school to keep student loans in line, live frugally in your 20's so you can buy a house, now you're in a position to have children so you spend your 30's putting money into your kids and saving for their future, then when you finally get to a place where you can maybe take them on a trip or buy a new motorcycle someone decides that they aren't getting their "fair share" and boom, you're back to having limited disposable income.
Most of us did those things
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Exactly. Most of us have done those things. But some people made different choices along the way. Let me put it this way, if someone had done things all the exact same as Ironhorse, but didn't have kids, he could afford to do the things we're talking about. But it was his choice to gear his life towards setting himself up for raising a family, and good on him and his SO, but it means sacrificing these things. Just like someone that was in the same financial position, but didn't have kids, sacrificed all the benefits of having a family for more financial freedom.
But on the whole, I agree that its not the people like Ironhorse that should be getting hit with overbearing tax, it's the people at the very very top (like the one who just decided to take his funds and run) that should be getting hit up. But they have methods of avoiding it, unfortunately.