CEP 818: How Do I Love Thee? Module 4

Topic: Living Independently

Element from the topic: Financial independence (income)

Analogy: Your net income is your actual take home pay after taxes and other deductions. This is much like a fisherman who throws his net over the ship looking to catch fish. The fish (money) swim into the net and the fisherman raises the net back up to the ship. But the net has some larger holes in it so some of the fish fall through and return to the water (taxes/deductions/etc.) What the fisherman actually brings into the boat is what he has caught for the day… or in other words, what he “netted” for his actual income.

Limerick Poetry:

Cap'n Trey couldn’t wait to get paid,
A phat check he was certain he'd made.
With a net full of fish,
He had only one wish.
But his taxes he couldn’t evade.