Wisas62

That's the right take. Take zero responsibility for your own actions and blame everyone else instead.

This comment shows how uneducated on the topic you took the time to comment on you are. Average cost of college in 2010 was $33k and $38k now. source

Entry level based on the OP comment that they are a college graduate. I didn't realize that I had to specify something that was spelled out in the OP.

See this is the problem, you're entirely missing the point. You don't have to go to Harvard to be an elementary school teacher. Harvard on average $228k for 4 years Bridgewater State $44k for 4 years. Only 35 miles apart.

This person chose to take out somewhere on the realm of $90k worth of student loans for a career that makes less than $50k per year.

I don't know anything about it, but we an example out of state tuition at Fayetteville State University is less than $25k for 4 years.

There are options and choices but people would rather take the easy way and blame someone else.

I agree college prices are out of control, but right now you have to work within the constraints available.

I know you're citing this per 1k like they would in statistics but also want to point out that with the population increase between 1946 and 1965, more babies were actually born in 1965 than 1946.

Your comment is the biggest problem we have right now. There's no, just paying a little more on taxes to get free healthcare. It's estimated that currently it would be $3-4 trillion a year for universal healthcare. The total taxable income the US made was ~$4.4 trillion. 41.5% of that is individual taxes. If everyone paid 10% more that would only be $182B. You haven't even scratched the surface of the cost. Adding universal health care is far more complicated than just everyone paying a little more in taxes.

Effective tax rate of 23.64%. He's very nearly in the 1% as far as yearly wages go, probably is when you calculate his total net worth. He paid $146k in taxes, more than some people will pay in their whole lifetime.