well Bruce, if you or your wife have not inherited property, and if you have not had any type of government job in your life, I stand corrected. I have to admit that I did contract work for a government type entity for five years once, and learned a lot about how government worked, or rather, doesn't work. People that actually were getting government wages were mad at me cause I worked hard and they said I made them look bad. They had their sick pay, their vacation pay, and their holiday pay. Good for them.
You said that both you and your wife paid the maximum in social security taxes in one post. That would mean that you made about $106,500 each in today's dollars. Maybe you meant something different than that. I am just going on what you wrote in a post. Again, maybe I need to be corrected.
You just don't seem to me to be one of us that has worked with free market economics for your life. Your lense seems to be one of a government worker.
