Talk:Disposable and discretionary income

message: Just a dictionary entry. Difficult to see any way that this could become a useful article. Tannin
As discussions on "US middle class" have taken on many flavors, if someone better versed than I would take the time, the significance of discretionary-income would be more apparent. Anyone, anyone...  --Walts0042 (talk) 21:22, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The dictionary comment was made a while ago when it was just that, it has since matured into a reasonable article. Martin - The non-blue non-moose 18:14, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Just a dictionary entry

message: Since this article points out that the two are different, why does discretionary income redirect to this article? Should it be renamed Disposable and discretionary income? ~ Rollo44 05:04, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disposable versus discretionary income 

message: As per cited sources. DOR (HK) (talk) 07:39, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expanded definition 

message: I'm not disputing the definition, I assume it's right. What I'm saying is that it makes no sense. I've always thought that disposable income is how it sounds - "disposable". As in, after taxes and all your bills/commitments are taken care of, whatever is left is disposable - and can be frittered away on trivialities, because it's disposable. Of course, after reading the page, I see that what I've always been thinking was disposable income was actually discretionary income. I just think it's a bit crazy that true disposable income is earmarked for various things that you must pay. 188.174.4.196 (talk) 09:26, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disposable Income Definition Makes No Sense To Me 

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message: This is not at all my field (and first talk suggestion, apologies in advance), so I can only suggest, but could this article not benefit from a rework? Particularly for the disposable section. As a layman it seemed very jumbled.
Some points:
* As in the discretionary section, can a disposable formula not be presented? And for each element in the formula, a list of examples given? Currently, the long lists and parens make it difficult to grasp the initial concept.
* What are national accounts? Is this USA-centric?
* 'hence the income left...' also seems to be a rearranging of the formula, but again uses different wording.
* Is "personal (or, private) savings" more readable as "savings (personal or private)"? That is if there is no other type of savings..
* The "Restated" paragraph only seems to include some of the elements of the previous paragraph. At the very least because consumption expenditure seems to only be one part of personal outlays, not the entirety of it. Should it not be restated as 'personal outlays' plus 'savings' instead, if it is just a rearrangement of the formula?
* Should the MPC paragraph be moved to a subsection?
* The study paragraph needs dates (the ref only includes a retrieval date)
* From a technical standpoint, could the discretionary formula not also be written in terms of disposable income?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.55.69.142 (talk) 05:08, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is a rework appropriate? 

message: Suggest moving to Disposable income due to more common usage HudecEmil (talk) 17:58, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to "Disposable income"