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wow you must have alot of time on your hands to go back to other posts and take statements out of context and post them in another thread. Maybe you should get a hobby
Don't be upset that your personal attack on somebody else came back to haunt you.
A simple search takes two seconds. Especially when you know that the individual has been running around here being partisan for quite some time.
It's obvious that most of the posters on here have not read the post. The point of the OP was not that $250,000 is rich. The point was that Limbaugh claims that the top 2% earners are not rich, yet on his OWN website he claims that only the RICH pay taxes, citing people in the top 50%, 10%, and 5% as examples.
Let me stupify it for you.
Making $250,000 is not rich. Agreed, Debate over. I agree 250k is not rich. Limbaugh however claims that ONLY the rich pay taxes. He doesn't say that the rich and middle class, he says ONLY. Do you not understand the definition of ONLY? In his example of ONLY the rich paying taxes he supplies three groups of individuals who pay taxes, the upper 50%, the upper 10%, and the upper 5%. So if he says only the rich pay taxes, and he says all these three groups pay taxes, one can only deduce that these three groups fall into the category of "rich"
You want to play semantics of rich versus wealthy and make up your own definition, please refer to these definitions, see, they are really the same
Wait but my blog says different. Its there main source of info on everything and now you had to go and use a DICTIONARY. way to go and use a real source and ruin it
Oh please thats bs. Even on Long Island $250,000 is past middle class. According to the census bureau, only 14% of households on Long Island had incomes in excess of $200,000. Of those above $200,000 I would say quite a few of those are between $200,000-$250,000. Not above it. On top of that, its for household income, which likely includes quite a few of those with 20 somethings living at home. A couple may have a combined income around $140,000- $150,000 and pay taxes on that, but if they have one or two 20 somethings living at home, that might push them over the $200,000 when household income is looked at. The median household income in Nassau County in 08 was $95,282 not even close to your $250,000 mark. Even in high cost high income areas like here on Long Island $250,000 isn't middle class. The only areas that have a median income that even come remotely close to that are the extremely wealthy areas of Sands Point and Brookville. Hell even upper-middle class areas are no where even remotely close to having a median income anywhere near $250,000 (both Jericho and Garden City are in the mid to upper 130's),
oh more facts....look out for the backlash against them...they hate facts
If you are going to discuss the top earners in the country, you indeed need to discuss the richest people? This cant be that difficult for you because my 9 year old son could tell you that..
not when you are going to talk about a place where everyone is multimillionaires you are isolating a group of millionaires to say 250k is poverty. NO one making 200k lives there Just like no one making 2 million lives in compton
so you are saying we should use Mississippi as the average????
sorry but you are wrong......you cant use an 'average'.
are you saying we should LOWER standards?????...I would think the idea should be to RAISE standards
ummmmmmm you should use average as average that what average is. Suffolk county is one of the highest cost of living places in the US.. Not average at all. and it has nothing to do with being better. Its more expensive due to location
not when you are going to talk about a place where everyone is multimillionaires you are isolating a group of millionaires to say 250k is poverty. NO one making 200k lives there Just like no one making 2 million lives in compton
You must not understand how someone who lives in an area where the average income is $5,000,000, would have a higher cost of living and due to that higher cost of living, not be able to obtain wealth. They might have "rich" income.. but income is not wealth.. Something that seems foreign to you..
Don't be upset that your personal attack on somebody else came back to haunt you.
A simple search takes two seconds. Especially when you know that the individual has been running around here being partisan for quite some time.
You have no right to call anybody partisan.
oh so you are upset that I call people out on political agendas I see.
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you are isolating a group of millionaires to say 250k is poverty. NO one making 200k lives there
