There you go again girl, you tell them like it is!

I know what is America. Normally people need to live in hard working for a quality life. You will be more difficult to keep the quality life than in Asia. I know some Asian who lives in America, and they earn over US$7000 p/m, but they don't have much spare money to buy expensive stuff, because of the tax...

Something you have to / must know

I'm an Asian, I don't like that, Some Asian in America should stop saying they're poor, they should know it (high tax payment and costly living) before immigrating to America.

She could have sue her 'manager' and/or 'accountant'.  Unless she has no paper trails then she got nothing against them.

Pre tax...$7000/per month
Post tax,post insurance,post 401K... .~$5000/per month

$5000/per month disposable income is a lot of money to be spent on needs and wants. 

Folks living in the USA pay relatively lower taxes than the rest of 1st world nations.  50% or more of folks salarise in Canada and European United nations (because of Socialism mentality) are taxed.  So if you are living in the USA, you are very lucky to have more money to spend on whatever your heart desires.

I'm not a resident of USA, but Australia at the moment.
Tax in Australia depends on income level and occupation. Like the mining worker (miner) pays 45% (rising higher), officer with high income pays approximate 30%. In HK you just pay almost nothing.

I am an urban planner, whether high or low tax system gives challenges to city development. Just like Microsoft and Apple user they never said other is better and they know the issues of their system. However, you live happy/ agree with the system, it is more important than how much money you paid for tax.

Not too sure about this dude because he is not paying tax at all and this baffles me greatly.

Correct me if I am wrong, but Hong Kong is the only Asian country that Judy Garland ever visited.