Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for December 30, 2023

Sorry Hammie these days that three hundred won’t go very far.

Catastrophic fail, Daryl! $300 is a lot to a kid Hammie’s age. And he didn’t even know drive thru guys get paid. Whoo! I wouldn’t worry too much Daryl. He’ll figure out that fast food job is just the bottom of the career totem.

Hammie isn’t thinking about the expenses he will have as an adult. Assuming this guy is single he may live in an apartment. There’s rent to pay, food to buy, other bills, gas for his car, insurance, bills for his phone and internet. It really never ends. $300 a week won’t go very far. Oh yeah and then Uncle Sam demands his share!

Bad idea dad.

I once told a boss all I wanted was a hundred dollars per day because I didn’t have enough imagination to spend that much. In less than three years they had raised me to about twice that. Sure enough, I just kept banking the excess because even giving it away still left me with more than I could spend. I had to get married to find someone competent at spending all of it. Problem solved!!

(Going to a much lower paying job helped too.)

Your idea backfired, Darryl!

Move! Many States don’t tax Social Security or have No State Income Tax at all.

Let Hammie be him.

My first teaching contract way back in 1976 was for $7200 a year. Of course, it went a lot farther back then. My first new car, a ‘77 Chevy Nova, cost a little over $4000. A week’s worth of groceries was about $25.

After taxes, he’s left with $73.99.

I assume it’s the headset that has got Hammie geared…

Wait ‘til he reads the check stub, "What’s FICA?"

Caveat on the $300; that’s before taxes, fees, etc. So what is the net?

I’m surprised Kurt’s boss is giving him time to chat.

Poor dad, Hammie made Kurt feel great. lol

He needs the “Cosby” show lesson – room rent, bed purchase, meal costs…

When I first moved into a certain area in the late 90’s you could rent a trailer at a trailer park for $200 a month. (I used that as a sales pitch unsuccessfully to try to get family members to relocate) Now all the trailer parks have been bought out – raised the rates to chase everyone out to build McMansions. Now the average cost of a house in the area is 400k with quadrupled property taxes approaching 400 a month

I hope he tells Hammie about the customers who are jerks…

300 bucks? Oh deer!!

Guy says he works part time and makes $300 a week? Wow! Full time at minimum wage ($7.25 here in our corner of paradise) is like $290, and that’s gross.

He must live in a state with a legislature controlled by a party that actually cares about low income workers.

Can we all agree NOT to make fun of him for being an 8 year old boy?

$1200/mo doesn’t even cover rent for an efficiency apartment, let alone utilities, car note, car insurance, renter’s insurance, health/dental insurance, gas, phone, and food.

Dude, $300 a week is like being able to buy a Playstation 5 after just two weeks and be able to afford a couple of extra games as well. THAT is what Hammie sees.

And Hammie= Free Food!

Hammieburgers

Well, this is just depressing.

Now if at Hammie’s age he made 300 a week! (shoot…he could help out with the mortgage and utilities!!)

$1200/mo doesn’t even cover rent for an efficiency apartment, let alone utilities, car note, car insurance, renter’s insurance, health/dental insurance, gas, phone, and food.