"Scraping by" with a $1.5M house, two leased luxury cars, and three vacations a year. Get all the fucking way outta here with this "IT'S BECUZ TEH EVIL GUBMINT TAXES" bullshit.
I was raised by working parents, we bought used cars, lived in the same house for 20-plus years, went on road trip vacations, ate out at a buffet once a week. We watched tv, but I was mostly confused by the lifestyles we saw there. I’m not saying it was a perfect experience, I hated my parents until I started paying my own way. Suddenly I saw my coworkers were struggling on twice my income. I have lots of problems, but money isn’t one of them.