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Old 01-11-2013, 12:03 PM   #7
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I've had several employees call me up asking why their checks are so much less now. I explain to them that it's the tax increase and they say they thought it was only for the wealthy. I tell them "congratulations, you are now wealthy according to our government". I started dumping more into my 401K and HSA account to protect it from being taxed, but it still sucks.

But for every thousand you need to protect your forced to dump something like $3,000.00 into a shelter. Impossible to keep up with.

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