> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gary Green
> 
> New Jersey minimum wage is $7.15, yes.  Buit can one pay 
> their real estate taxes?  Wait, on that salary, one cannot 
> afford to own a home.
> 
> At that salary, 25% of my gross income would go to pay the 
> real estate taxes on my house.  And I not unusual.  As a 
> state, New Jersey has the highest RE taxes in the country.  
> Or so I read.

Chicagoland can't be too far behind that.  My annual RE taxes are just
shy of $4K on a $180K bungalow in a suburb.....

    -jc-

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