We are a middle class family I guess you'd say... My DH is disabled due to lightning strike in 1997. By 1999 he was diagnosed as disabled. Luckily he was smart enough to purchased LTD insurance when he was working, which he will now recieve til he is 65. First it took almost 5 yrs for him to be accepted for SSDI... LTD ins used their attnys. We try to do the best we can to keep everything caught up as far as home, cars, student in college, etc... But we are still pinched and as anyone that is middle class is aware...We have no help from the gov. Make too much for aid and too little to be able to purchase health ins for our children or myself(hubby don't need it he's on Medicare).
So anyway, I go to work for 5-6 yrs and I loved being out socializing and we had ins but in those 5-6 yrs(didn't work before that cause was a housewife but we lived in a state that had no st tax at the time) we have had to pay no less than and many times way more than 3000.00 in st and fed taxes... No work last year due to having to quit to help with family and guess what! For the first time in 20 yrs(hubby used to make way good money) we have no fed tax to pay and actually got a 619.00 child tax credit back... And our state tax was half as much as when I was working.
It's like they punish you for going to work!
So anyway, I go to work for 5-6 yrs and I loved being out socializing and we had ins but in those 5-6 yrs(didn't work before that cause was a housewife but we lived in a state that had no st tax at the time) we have had to pay no less than and many times way more than 3000.00 in st and fed taxes... No work last year due to having to quit to help with family and guess what! For the first time in 20 yrs(hubby used to make way good money) we have no fed tax to pay and actually got a 619.00 child tax credit back... And our state tax was half as much as when I was working.
It's like they punish you for going to work!
