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Originally Posted by DorkMissile

My wife and I are both in our 40s, no kids, put over 15% of our wages into retirement in order to knock down our middle class income. We claim zero federal, zero state, and still pay in $8k a year. And like every year - we pay it in as soon as we get our W2s so that we are not burdened with it later in the year when we have stuff going on.

Just to find out the rest of the country is going to get a extension and the government is going to issue a stimulus that we won't qualify for.

I don't mind deadline extensions and even the stimulus, but to know that I worked my a** off all my life to get where I am, and (therefore?) never ever qualified for anything in either country I've lived and paid hefty taxes in (I'm a naturalized immigrant), always on time, never taking semi-legal shortcuts, well, is not a happy thought. Nevertheless, there are many who will be hit harder by the aftermath, so I won't complain.