Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:27:53 -0500
From: joetaxpayer 
Subject: Re: "Good" breakdown of expenses
Newsgroups: misc.invest.financial-plan
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BreadWithSpam@fractious.net wrote:

> "dapperdobbs"  writes:
> 
> 
>>BreadWithSpam@fractious.net wrote:
>>
>>
>>>The BLS's survey suggests that 40% of *spent* income gets spent
>>>on cars and houses.
>>
>>The BLS Consumer Expenditures Survey 2004 (PDF file) on page 4 shows
>>that between 32% and 33% of expenditures is for housing.
>>http://www.bls.gov/cex/
> 
> 
> And almost 8% on cars.  "cars and houses".  re-read the paragraph
> you snipped above.
> 

I find it interesting, the total transportation cost (including car, 
gas, oil, and public transportation) add to 18%. This is from the '04 
data, latest available. I'd guess that this cost is disproportionally 
higher as income drops. (and vice versa)
JOE