So to read the book I want to, the odds of me having to wait or be disappointed are higher at a library. This has happened to me often.

With a bookstore, I rarely do not find what I want.

Online is even better. With stuff like Cory’s, I can download and read it, RIGHT NOW. Don’t even have to get in the car. The internet is always open too, I get a book urge at 4am, I’m SOL with brick retail.

Forgive me for turning the topic from reading, but that graphic donut is a bad fiction. I’m healthy and spend and spend less than $600 a year on the doctor, dentist and medicines. At over 60 my Blue Cross single payer premiums now exceed 50% of my income with only part time work. I don’t work full time because we cannot afford private care for the elderly in the family. I do it. My Blue Cross is $7,300 a year now. 22 years ago a it cost one weeks wages $450. 40 years ago, a year’s coverage was $34. Young families of four that live around us are paying $12,000 to $16,000 a year for health insurance.

That education percentage at 1.9% means no higher education not even a state university. The University of Utah’s average tuition cost today is $17,000. It means that the children of that “typical family” have an infinitesimal chance of matching their parents income levels.

{musical accompaniment : I Don’t Wanna Grow U by Tom Waits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IaNaQHjIRE }

To me, that figure seems much too low:

Just the US federal budget alone is roughly 3 trillion dollars per year. That works out to about $10,000 per person. I have no idea what the average state taxes are in the ‘States. Is it only from sales tax?

That chart-o-gram claims that the ‘taxes’ per 2.5 person/family is $13,500, not $25,000. What gives?

Total: 125%

And my captcha: July urinated

Dick

Given that a fourth of Americans don’t even read a single book per year, the 0.2% figure for reading expenses seems about right. We’re both in grad school and are on track to spend about 5 times that much, though the percentage of our income would be much higher if we weren’t both working full-time.

According to the chart I spend more on property tax in a year than I do on healthcare…

Of course this also takes into account an average of people. I know people who pay way more rent to live in 1/5 the space of my house because it’s trendy… The same goes for buying things. My wife and I watch our money and look for good deals, but we do spend it if we need to.