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Originally Posted by tbwinner
Search "tax preparer" on Facebook and you'll get a good mix of both questionable advice and people touting their $11,000 in refunds because they make $20k and have two kids. Ps. Child support and food stamps are not taxable income. Why work or look to improve yourself if you're getting a net 31k from working(your income plus your earned income credits and child credits) plus all the child support you're able to get off the father(most states BTW make it hard to dodge the state agencies garnishing checks now!)
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This was 30 years ago in SoCal but there was a bright 10 year old girl who had 3 other siblings who was a friend of my friend's daughter. The unmarried parents lived together and never worked. The daughter knew the families finances and didn't mind sharing. She asked me how much I pay for rent. I told her I owned and paid $825 a month, she said there rent was $75, section 8 of course. See also passed on the welfare and food stamp benefit numbers.
Doing some quick math and also realized they get free healthcare, knowing taxes that family was getting the equivalent of a person making $20 an hour working 40 hours a week. In that city at that time that is what a skilled tradesman would make if they worked for someone else. I was about to go on my own full time and was making $28 an hour, but I drove 90 miles round trip into the big city for it and that was top non union pay.