Now a tangent. Along the same lines, I don't like people saying 'it takes two incomes to do X'.
How about the argument that it takes two incomes because one of the couple's member's earnings is essentially going to pay taxes, i.e., when you add up their total Federal, state, and local income taxes, sales tax, property tax, FICA, etc., it amounts to about as much as one of them is earning, and while things like income taxes are based on the amount earned, things like sales taxes on necessities and property taxes would not be diminished if only one were working.
And the problem is now that everyone thinks needs, when they mean wants. They need cable TV, a cell phone, two or more cars, a maid, a nanny, a day care center.
How about a single parent who needs the latter in order to go to work and feed (usually) her kids if she doesn't want to be on welfare?
-- Ronn! :)
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