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by jdavis703 2616 days ago
How do you pay for $200k level taxes on a $60k salary? I make low six figures and pay an effective tax rate of about 35%. You’d only have about $5k left over for living expenses for the year...
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Assuming this was a legitimate misunderstanding:

- they earn a $200k salary

- their living expenses match those of a person living with a $60k salary and presumably spending everything they earn after tax (in response to “what kind of life they can live with $60-80k”)

Does that make sense?

Yeah, I had kind of assumed they were advocating putting $140k in the bank and living off the $60k.