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hfojvt

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5. many of the retired have considerable income

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Sun Jan 25, 2015, 01:32 PM

Jan 2015

and yet they still get tax breaks that working people do not. KPERS income is not taxed by the state of Kansas, for example.

I get that they are trying to give retired people a little bit of incentive to stay in Kansas and not move to balmy South Dakota which has NO state income tax, but still ... Talking to the city manager, he claimed that he will make over $100,000 a year when he is retired.

Also, tens of millions of German speakers are not doing all that bad today. Back in 2001 I would have happily moved to Germany or Switzerland where they treat their low income workers a little better than they do here. Learning a new language would be a small price to pay for a little more gemutlichkeit.

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