[quote=CA renter]. . . BG (and others) insists that it doesn’t make sense to have a SAHP — that this person is a drain on the family’s finances, but nobody else dared to come up with the actual numbers like I did (though BG has been saying that she would do so, and would include the first wage-earner’s income in order to get the true picture of how much that second spouse is **really** earning when choosing to work outside the home. Of course, that would make the case for having a SAHP even more compelling, which is why I think we still haven’t seen the numbers.
It’s pretty eye-opening when you run the actual numbers.[/quote]
CAR, my people came in at the crack of dawn this morning and are still sleeping so thought I’d check in. I AM working on that post/thread I promised and WILL get it out very soon. There is a little more research I need to do on local child care resources and I need to place this family in a fictional home in SD County so they can claim the correct tax writeoffs and we can mull over their housing expenses. Congress made it worthwhile for both parents to work FT (or one PT) when it revised the tax code in 1986:
To your comments above regarding transportation and lunches, I’m going to state here again that many, many “professionals” take public transportation to/from work and bring their own lunches from home daily the vast majority of the time. Most “professionals” don’t have time in their workday to run around waiting in lines trying to scare up a lunch everyday. And most workers want a healthy lunch and snacks available (ie apples, carrots and celery, and reheated leftovers, etc) instead of fast food. I’m referring to the worker-culture in dtn SD as that is the only culture I’m really familiar with. There are actually many more dtn workers who take public transportation now than before I “retired” due to (now) the exorbitant cost of daily parking for governments, firms and their employees. The trolleys are standing-room only and the express buses during rush hours are full! This is also true of SF, dtn LA (Temple St vicinity) and dtn Sac workers.
Perhaps many/most posters on this board aren’t familiar with an urban work culture due to always having worked in a suburb or exurb where their employer provided free parking for them.
