[shantly]

Between the money-based fight to get your kids in better schools (public or private, it's money either way, just a matter of whether the money's in tuition or housing) and health care it does kind of seem like the system's designed to eat every last dollar a normal to well-off-but-not-actually-rich family can get their hands on.

[JoelMcCracken]

of course, these people pay a lot of the taxes. the rich don't, and poor just don't have the money to pay.