When he died, Benjamin Franklin bequeathed $5,000 to the city of Boston. This was a large sum at the time.
Today, it's just a paycheck for a software engineer.
Today, it's just a paycheck for a software engineer.
The $250k (single) and $400k (couple) brackets haven’t changed - except for 11 years out of the past 25 - but you can buy a heck of a lot less with that sum of money now.