Movie ticket is $15. A parking ticket in LA is $63 (this for the meter running over). A doctor visit is a few hundred dollars. I pay alot in taxes.
My neighbor is a firefighter engineer and he makes $250k. I know multiple teachers who are at 100k.
Those professions do fine.
You dont like movies or entertainment dont watch.
Those are far and few between I don't know fireman that make 250k a year
teachers
Alabama $36,198 $47,949
Alaska $44,166 $65,468
Arizona $31,874 $49,885
Arkansas $32,691 $46,631
California $41,259 $69,324
Colorado $32,126 $49,844
Connecticut $42,924 $69,397
Delaware $39,338 $59,679
Florida $35,166 $46,598
Georgia $33,664 $52,880
Hawaii $41,027 $54,300
Idaho $31,159 $49,734
Illinois $37,166 $59,113
Indiana $34,696 $50,065
Iowa $33,226 $50,946
Kansas $33,386 $47,464
Kentucky $35,166 $50,203
Louisiana $38,655 $51,381
Maine $31,835 $48,430
Maryland $43,235 $64,248
Massachusetts $40,600 $72,334
Michigan $35,901 $61,560
Minnesota $34,505 $56,268
Mississippi $31,184 $41,814
Missouri $30,064 $47,517
Montana $27,274 $48,855
Nebraska $30,844 $48,997
Nevada $35,358 $55,957
New Hampshire $34,280 $55,599
New Jersey $48,631 $68,797
New Mexico $31,960 $45,453
New York $43,839 $75,279
North Carolina $30,778 $45,737
North Dakota $32,019 $47,344
Ohio $33,096 $56,307
Oklahoma $31,606 $44,373
Oregon $33,549 $57,612
Pennsylvania $41,901 $62,994
Rhode Island $39,196 $63,474
South Carolina $32,306 $48,375
South Dakota $29,851 $39,018
Tennessee $34,098 $47,563
Texas $38,091 $48,819
Utah $33,081 $49,393
Vermont $35,541 $52,526
Virginia $37,848 $48,670
Washington $36,335 $52,234
West Virginia $32,533 $45,453
Wisconsin $33,546 $53,797
Wyoming $43,269 $56,775
Source: 2012-13, National Education Association (nea.org)