Like 99.9999% of the rest of the world, I don't know the details of Wall Street's financial problems, but it sounds like it's all about home prices and loans. Well, I don't have a home. I've been renting my entire adult life, including 8 years of marriage, and guess why. We haven't been able to afford it! We've scrimped and saved this whole time to get ourselves in a position where we are now: prospective home buyers and probably now in the top 5-10% of wage earners, thanks to my wife's 5 years in grad school. So now, at the cusp of settling down and working hard for the next 40 years, we are being asked to fix America's economy with our taxes. Well, that pisses me off, and I'm going to raise hell to stop it.
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