RE: Separation of Infrastructure and State
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Of course I had to be dirt poor that entire time to qualify for the full amount
Did you deliberately keep your reportable income low enough to qualify? I know several people who are careful to not earn so much that they would lose their "subsidy" for Obamacare health insurance. In essense, the subsidy encourges them to remain poor. I was in the same pickle for a brief time when my family was on Medicaid. If we earned another few hundred dollars a year, we would have had to pay a thousand a month in "premiums" for "health" insurance. The time we had to spend on paperwork and visits to governmental offices just to get this "insurance" was absurd.
Government handouts are traps.
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Actually my job at Amazon had weird flexibility in that I could make less money when I applied to get the full amount (this was easy because the job itself was already seasonal), and then make more after being approved, but still not enough to be required to report the additional income because it was below the reporting threshold. I had actually forgotten about that till you asked.
The same concept applies to all the tax brackets as well.
Make $1 more and it's possible you lose 10% more of your income.
Pretty insane way to run a needlessly complex system.
Makes you wonder.