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freshwest

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3. This is what I made and paid in the Reagan years in a union job.

Reply to tomkoop (Original post)

Fri Jun 22, 2012, 03:16 PM

Jun 2012

I refused all the overtime I could to keep from going above that rate. Half my income went to FICA and the IRS and whatever else they were taking out of my checks. I didn't begrudge paying it then.

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