U.S. Middle Class nearly gone

[SickBeast]

So we pay 10% more tax but you guys pay on average $4500/year on health insurance.  There is no way that I pay $4500/year more in tax than you, so essentially we pay *less* tax overall.

I get $550 a month out of my pay for health insurance and it doesn't cover hardly anything. I still have over a $100 a month paying in health bills not covered by insurance.

We will see what Rollo says.  He doesn't typically respond well to being proven wrong.

I'll wait until I'm proved wrong to see.

A lot of people here don't pay anything for health insurance.

We pay $400/mo, pre-tax, and it covers everything.

So do you think I'm wishing I was paying between 3-4X more than that in tax, or paying the $4800? Gosh, that's a puzzler.

Rollo you're not making proper sense of the numbers. Even $400/month is $4800/year. That equates to *way* more than 10% of my annual taxes. Not to mention the fact that I get far better government services including affordable university tuition and free universal healthcare.