Replies to post #52531 on Biotech Values

[masterlongevity]

It sucks for us on the coasts as making $330,000 in NYC or San Francisco is nothing like making it in Nebraska and Texas, or even DC and Chicago.

If you take the historial average for price of home /income, which is 3/1, that would allow you to ahve a $1Million home. In San Francisco, you cannot buy a house for $1Million.

You can, however, buy a 1100ft. 2bdroom condo. that is, you could, until you had to pay teh 50% tax that is going to be levied.

i wish there was a way to take the cost of living into account. For instance, if you make $500K in SF or NYC and $336K in the rest of country.

[akasidney86]

You brought up your personal finances... not me. And then you brought them up again. And this may be news, but 'leveling the playing field' comes at everyone's expense... yours included. We've all worked hard, and usually the lowest paid worked far harder than most (ever picked lettuce?). As to what a democrat running against other democrats might say, and what might actually happen in the reality of Washington are two very different things.

And it wasn't my intention to offend as I so clearly did. This isn't personal, it's basic civics and one's perception of them. Considering the fact that in your childhood the richest paid well over 50% (and still do in many industrialized countries) and that those tax rates created the nation that all seem to yearn to go back to... 39% doesn't seem too much to ask. JMHO.