Thought help: I make less then $15,000 per year, I basically feel like I watch - Help.com

You are in better shape than many.

Then don’t and do want is in your means. You may see someone on the streets and he needs a dollar for a sandwich or a burger in McDonalds, buy one for him if he really needs it. Don’t give him the cash otherwise he’ll spend it on drugs or alcohol but do what you can. Sometimes I am at the supermarket and a single mother asks me for £1 (I’m in England) for a pie for her family’s lunch. I watch her buy it. That’s all I can afford to do and I feel it too. So hold on to your cash when you are broke and when you have more, give more. But remember the little people who will benefit from getting 25 cents or $1 to make up/buy whatever they need right now and when you help people, i.e. an old lady get her shopping off the bus etc. you make them feel better. There are still many ways you can be generous without having hundreds of dollars to give away.

i like being generous but i am just frustrated that I have to pay more when i have little more to give…..grrr….aah!!!!!!

Anonymous wrote:
i like being generous but i am just frustrated that I have to pay more when i have little more to give…..grrr….aah!!!!!!

You’ve learnt. You won’t do it again. Find the $100, pay Caesar what you owe him as Jesus said and get over it. If it’s not the banks finding ways of getting extra fees off you, it’s the tax men. I hope that’s your only surprise this year.

You are paying a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett and other multi-billionaires. Thank our corrupt Congress!

chev.jame wrote:
You are paying a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett and other multi-billionaires. Thank our corrupt Congress!

Same thing going on in the ‘Great’ UK, they are taxing the poor and giving it to the rich. Cutting benefits and tax concessions for the poorest, disabled and oldest in society and making huge concessions to industry to boost the economy, or their best friends’ bank accounts.

And when you fix your broken car, you can perhaps pick up some groceries for the old or disabled neighbours nearby. You can do your own charity thing and it will be helping people in your community who really need it and you will feel better seeing what good you are doing with your own eyes. Mowing a loan, painting a ceiling makes a difference to so many housebound people’s lives and

Work out how much you need to earn BEFORE the minimum tax thing and don’t go over it this year.

eh…i could try that i guess…i feel like i already serve the community with my job..working at a non profit and changing adult diapers…but i try to do as much as i can

Anonymous wrote:
eh…i could try that i guess…i feel like i already serve the community with my job..working at a non profit and changing adult diapers…but i try to do as much as i can

You’re fine. Do any with the guilt. The rich are filthy rich and treat the poor with disgust. You are a million times better than the lot of them.