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Amore interesting number is my overall trade deficit--the total of all my spending minus the total of all my earning.
But it didn't feel like a bad day--I like my new rug, and it would have been inconvenient to put off buying it until a day when I felt like earning enough to pay for it.
And yes, some people are paying tax rates they "never expected would apply" to them, but only because they're earning more money than they ever expected.
So is the issue of whether a couple earning $44,000--about one-and-a-half times the median family income--in retirement counts as "affluent."
The same logic would hold for a postal service earning any given profit (loss).