Taxes are not ANYBODY’S main expense and to get into a new tax bracket isn’t that different. In 2001, I jumped into a new tax bracket briefly going from $60k to $62.5 for about a year… (worked for pharma for a few years) and yeah it was higher taxes but I could also afford to put more away in 401k and other pretax things that more than made up for a tiny higher %.

Taxes are not ANYBODY’S main expense and to get into a new tax bracket isn’t that different.

In 2001, I jumped into a new tax bracket briefly going from $60k to $62.5 for about a year… (worked for pharma for a few years) and yeah it was higher taxes but I could also afford to put more away in 401k and other pretax things that more than made up for a tiny higher %.

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