{"id":6487,"date":"2016-03-28T10:36:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T14:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2016-03-28T10:44:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T14:44:31","slug":"chump-change-for-the-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6487","title":{"rendered":"Chump Change for the Middle Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, when the tax cuts proposed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6479\">the Senate bill supported by the Governor and Senate President<\/a> have been completely phased in, an individual that earns $375,000 will receive enough money annually to be able to pay for this brand new iPad Air 2 with 64GB of storage (price: $524 including tax):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ipad.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6488\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ipad.jpg\" alt=\"ipad\" width=\"445\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ipad.jpg 445w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ipad-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ipad-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/a>An individual who earns $50,000 to $100,000 will receive nothing (price $0) unless they have exemptions. For each additional exemption, an individual will be able to buy this Chipotle Chicken Burrito (Barbacoa is too expensive) along with Chips and Guacamole:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/chipotle1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6489\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6489 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/chipotle1.jpg\" alt=\"chipotle1\" width=\"388\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/chipotle1.jpg 319w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/chipotle1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a>Good news! This middle-class taxpayer will also be able to buy a large coke (total price: $15.68, including tax).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/chipotle-soda.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6490\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/chipotle-soda.jpg\" alt=\"chipotle soda\" width=\"165\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/chipotle-soda.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/chipotle-soda-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a>I suppose the good news is that the 2127 calories are more than enough for one person for the entire day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, when the tax cuts proposed in the Senate bill supported by the Governor and Senate President have been completely phased in, an individual that earns $375,000 will receive enough money annually to be able to pay for this brand new iPad Air 2 with 64GB of storage (price: $524 including tax): An individual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=6487\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chump Change for the Middle Class<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-1GD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6494,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions\/6494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}