Is the SAHM the new status symbol?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
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Tue, 09-23-2003 - 10:36pm
In the 70's and 80's women fought to get into the workforce (the whole Ms. magazine generation)...and then the tide turned in the late 1990's when more women started to stay home by choice. Now, it seems like being a SAHM is a status symbol....and superior to being a working mom.

Kat

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 3:52pm
They DO have to report it; you could tip them in bananas and they still have to report it. It's INCOME and that makes it subject to reporting to the IRS. sheesh.
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Registered: 09-13-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 3:54pm
you got it. Now I suppose you take issue with that? Before you ask, no I don't. I'm leading my life exactly as I desire with my hisband's blessing & encouragement. His is the only one I need.
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Registered: 08-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 3:54pm
the world needs more people like you. What a kind gesture. n/t
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Registered: 09-13-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 3:56pm
If you'd like to debate & leave the smart elec jabs & sarcasm at the door that is one thing, but if you want to continue posting in a childish manner I refuse to debate the subject.
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Registered: 07-21-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 3:56pm
If it's no concern whether I believe you then why do you keep responding?
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 3:58pm
Oh, please. First of all, there's no tax bracket where anyone is paying MORE in taxes than they earn in income. So the single mother with starving kids being ripped off by unfair taxes scenario is just plain bull--what would this woman do if she had a job where she couldn't skim income? Would it be okay if she made up the difference by embezzling? I mean, after all, her kids are starving? What's the difference if one steals by embezzling or by skimming from taxable income?

Second of all, doesn't matter if someone tips at 3% or at 20%, the tip is TAXABLE INCOME and subject to reporting to the IRS; and failure to report the tip to IRS sets the person up for huge fines and back tax nightmares.

Third of all, as the world's worst waitress ever, I tip EXTREMELY well, even for crappy service, on occasion, depending on circumstances, and *I* get furious at people who underreport their earnings, passing on a heavier tax burden to the rest of us.

And fourth, the tax law doesn't tax waitstaff on imagined earnings; they are taxed on REPORTED earnings, so it doesn't matter if they tipped at 3% or 25%; they only PAY taxes on what they report (even if they OWE taxes on much more that goes unreported).

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:00pm
Different strokes for different folks. Those are not the values that I grew up with and not what I planned to impart to my child.
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Registered: 07-21-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:00pm
Sorry but I have to go and start dinner anyway. Some of us have to do those mundane tasks.. By the way, what is cook preparing for dinner tonight, or will madame be dining out?
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Registered: 08-19-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:01pm
So it's ok for a woman to sit around and do nothing all day b/c she's "living the life she desires." But it's NOT ok for a man to do the same thing - even if that's the life HE desires?

Interesting double standard . . .

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:01pm
No, you're absolutely right.

And while there may have once been a time when tips did not have to be claimed as taxable income, it happened prior to 1976, when I first started waiting tables.

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