Wonder how many cyclists already figured this out?

[Tuckervill]

My property taxes are about $500 a year when I take the homestead credit. My house is 1200 sq ft, and so is my workshop with about another 500 sq ft in other heated space, with an acre and a half of land.

Today I paid $1.94 a gallon for gas. Thirty percent of that was sales tax.

I don't have any income, but my husband does and he pays about $50 a week in state income tax.

We pay at least 8% sales tax on every little thing we buy. Depending on what municipality you happen to be standing in, it can be close to 11%.

We have many people that make six figures up here in NW Arkansas. We have more than our fair share of millionaires. Most of the millionaires got that way from being on the ground floor of Wal-Mart, Tyson, Jones Truck Lines and JB Hunt stock. We don't have any "old money", except the legacy of Winthrop Rockefeller, but he was slumming.

Karen

[Crankin]

Alfprfun, is that a 70 mile commute one-way? Yikes. Lots of people here in New England do that, but I had a fit last year when I moved 13.5 miles from work instead of 6.7. Your taxes are the same as mine, so lots of us pay what you do. My house is a little bigger than yours, but we just moved in a year ago, so it will never be paid off. I never expect to pay any house off or live anywhere long enough to do that! I paid my 3 year old car off last month in preparation for quitting work; my husband's car is next in a month or 2. Lots of people thought we were crazy to buy and remodel our house after our kids left; it's bigger than our last one, but we are so much happier here. I couldn't stand my old neighborhood, full of Stepford Wives. I am certainly not ready for the condo...
(No offense to condo dwellers, I mean the "retired" lifestyle. I hope people stop asking me if I will move to Florida. I lived there for 5 years and believe me, that will never happen).