This is where the liberal newspapers have been beating up workers like my husband. He is a Fire Capt in California at one of the busiest stations--normally 15 calls withing 24 hours. Figure that out?--but in the poorest areas where property tax is low so the dept doesn't get paid as much as--let's say Danville, CA - who only see one fire a year if they are lucky!! Inotherwords, work in the rich town, get better pay but less calls OR work in the poor busier area.. and get paid what they can afford.There is definately a flaw with that ..BUT to MY POINT>>>ANYWAY... the local newspaper prints my husbands salary as $140K per year...are you kidding me?? That is a great way to get the public of the poor town to dislike the fireman isn't it? This published amount is supposedly with all benefits. We are only taxed on 90K. We actually get $70K. If we were taxed on the $140K...hmmm wonder what my tax would be. Would that be considered 50% taxed? I consider the newspapers deceiving the public with these amounts. Causing hard feelings and making me angry like we live high on the hog. If he taxes our pre-tax stuff, I will be mad.