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Son Of A Bitch Barry O Screwing the Middle Class!
Posted by: Middle Class Guy ()
Date: July 09, 2012 03:03PM

Goddamn Obama calling for a tax hike again! 250K is not "rich" around here!

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Re: Son Of A Bitch Barry O Screwing the Middle Class!
Posted by: MrMephisto ()
Date: July 09, 2012 05:16PM

Middle Class Guy Wrote:
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> Goddamn Obama calling for a tax hike again! 250K
> is not "rich" around here!

Millions of people in the country won't see 250K in their life, let alone one year. You do realize that the microcosm that is Northern Virginia does not represent the rest of the nation, right? Because that would just be silly if you didn't.

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Re: Son Of A Bitch Barry O Screwing the Middle Class!
Posted by: Gilligan ()
Date: July 09, 2012 05:30PM

Be thankful you dont live in Maryland. Their new tax rate for being declared rich are those making 100k or more a year. Imagine 100k is rich.
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Re: Son Of A Bitch Barry O Screwing the Middle Class!
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: July 09, 2012 05:30PM

$250K is a decent income around here, if you spend wisely. But here, NYC, Los Angeles, San francisco, Boston, Hawaii etc- it hardly does qualify one as rich.

Where Great Leader is wrong is here- here is using the prospect of raising taxes on people as psuedo-populist campaigning ammo. It has ZERO to do with the creation of jobs, everything to do with class warfare and division.

Obama will attack lower taxes as adding to the deficit, but has no problem with deficit spending when it involved nearly a trillion dollars in printing money that went to the programs and the political machinery he favored.

Personally I think the American people can spend their own money more wisely and create more jobs than detached bureaucrats trying to micromanage by economic remote control.

If the "stimulus" had worked, unemployment would be down.


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Re: Son Of A Bitch Barry O Screwing the Middle Class!
Posted by: Barry? ()
Date: July 09, 2012 05:36PM

Barry who?

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Re: Son Of A Bitch Barry O Screwing the Middle Class!
Posted by: maryland my maryland ()
Date: July 09, 2012 05:38PM

100k a year might get you in a two bedroom condo. With 20% down and a low HOA fee. I am surrounded by rich people and never knew it.

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Re: Son Of A Bitch Barry O Screwing the Middle Class!
Posted by: MrMephisto ()
Date: July 09, 2012 05:45PM

WingNut Wrote:
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> $250K is a decent income around here, if you spend
> wisely.

What the hell are people buying that makes $250k only a "decent" income around here? If you're talking about a single income family living in a house they bought, then yes, I could see that. I know people living very comfortably on less than $50k.

Do... do you have a solid-gold toilet?

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Re: Son Of A Bitch Barry O Screwing the Middle Class!
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: July 09, 2012 06:19PM

MrMephisto Wrote:
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> WingNut Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > $250K is a decent income around here, if you
> spend
> > wisely.
>
> What the hell are people buying that makes $250k
> only a "decent" income around here? If you're
> talking about a single income family living in a
> house they bought, then yes, I could see that. I
> know people living very comfortably on less than
> $50k.

$50K isn't poor by my standards, but it's hardly cash to spare. If you don't mind roomates and cook all your own food, you can do it, but I can't describe that as "very" comfortable.

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Re: Son Of A Bitch Barry O Screwing the Middle Class!
Posted by: Middle Class Guy ()
Date: July 09, 2012 06:19PM

MrMephisto Wrote:
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> You do realize
> that the microcosm that is Northern Virginia does
> not represent the rest of the nation, right?
> Because that would just be silly if you didn't.

It's not the whole country, but it *is* the microcosm
is which we around here live. Folks in Boston, Pittsburgh,
Detroit, Dallas, Denver and LA all will have different
perspectives.


MrMephisto Wrote:
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> What the hell are people buying that makes $250k
> only a "decent" income around here? If you're
> talking about a single income family living in a
> house they bought, then yes, I could see that. I
> know people living very comfortably on less than
> $50k.
>
> Do... do you have a solid-gold toilet?

No, and I neither need nor want one. I do, however,
have a child in private school ($25K/yr) because the
publics schools are cess pools, I have a mortgage on
a house which will be paid in 10 years, and
two cars, one of which is a 10 y.o. gas hog with 200K
miles on it. I'm not feeling too rich and see no
need to pay a higher percentage of my income than the
$50K households you speak of.

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Re: Son Of A Bitch Barry O Screwing the Middle Class!
Posted by: silly ()
Date: July 09, 2012 06:57PM

MrMephisto Wrote:
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> Middle Class Guy Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Goddamn Obama calling for a tax hike again!
> 250K
> > is not "rich" around here!
>
> Millions of people in the country won't see 250K
> in their life, let alone one year. You do realize
> that the microcosm that is Northern Virginia does
> not represent the rest of the nation, right?
> Because that would just be silly if you didn't.

It would be silly if you thought that 250k is 250k everywhere in the country. Its all about where you live and cost of living.

Aside from the class warfare aspect of this bitching the fact that theres no adjustments to the number based on where you live exposes why its such a horrible idea.

Typical liberal logic dont raise the bar higher bring the successful down to make everyone equal

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Re: Son Of A Bitch Barry O Screwing the Middle Class!
Posted by: Middle Class Guy ()
Date: July 09, 2012 07:54PM

Libtards are of the belief that there is a fixed amount of money available. He only way for those without is to take it from those who have. The opportunities for success in this country are limitless, requiring only motivation, application, and a bit of good sense. It's far easier however for the lazy and shiftless sit on their asses while Socialist politicians buy votes by creating entitlements funded by taking from those who have.

I drive a Lexus. Mephisto believes that my "excess" money should be taken so that both he and I will drive Fords. In fact, I have at times been only able to afford a Ford (a Pinto), and it motivated me enough to work hard and be able to earn enough to drive a Lexus. There are more Lexii available for those like him, if they're willing to work hard enough and smart enough to earn one.

$250K is not rich in this area. Comfortable, but not rich.

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Re: Son Of A Bitch Barry O Screwing the Middle Class!
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: July 09, 2012 08:03PM

I thought I was the only here old enough to remember Pintos...

Don't think Mephisto made a call one way or the other about tax rates or politics, just the notion of $250K a year not being a lot of money around here.

If you are a bachelor and live in a modest place, you can do nicely on $250K, if you have a wife and several rugrats to feed and school, not so much.

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Re: Son Of A Bitch Barry O Screwing the Middle Class!
Posted by: Middle Class Guy ()
Date: July 09, 2012 08:22PM

WingNut Wrote:
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> I thought I was the only here old enough to
> remember Pintos...

But did you ever drop a V6 into one? What a ride that was - while it lasted!

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Re: Son Of A Bitch Barry O Screwing the Middle Class!
Posted by: Disconnect ()
Date: July 09, 2012 08:23PM

Which is particularly disingenuous when at the same time he's STILL talking about "millionaires and billionaires" while pushing a tax plan at $250K.

WTF? lol

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Re: Son Of A Bitch Barry O Screwing the Middle Class!
Posted by: gayster ()
Date: July 09, 2012 10:56PM



what a mo

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Re: Son Of A Bitch Barry O Screwing the Middle Class!
Posted by: gayster ()
Date: July 09, 2012 10:59PM

How mad is this mo?


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Re: Son Of A Bitch Barry O Screwing the Middle Class!
Posted by: Nova teetsuckers ()
Date: July 09, 2012 11:32PM

Middle Class Guy Wrote:
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> Goddamn Obama calling for a tax hike again! 250K
> is not "rich" around here!

But they're making the 250K off of the taxpayers directly or indirectly. I can't think of anyone more deserving.

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Re: Son Of A Bitch Barry O Screwing the Middle Class!
Posted by: MrMephisto ()
Date: July 10, 2012 01:43AM

WingNut Wrote:
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> Don't think Mephisto made a call one way or the
> other about tax rates or politics, just the notion
> of $250K a year not being a lot of money around
> here.

I wasn't, and thank you. I don't think the rest of these folks have been around long enough to know that I identify more with Republicans than Democrats.

A quick google search indicates that the average NOVA income is between $50k and $80k. There are only three cities in the whole country with an average income over $100k, and they're all in NOVA. Compared to many (if not most) areas in the country, that's crazy money.

Also (and I think this is the best part), I'd wager most of the people making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year are working for the federal government, either as feds, direct contractors, or indirect contractors. The government is responsible for employment for over half the people in this area one way or another. The other half make their living by providing goods and services to the people getting their tax-dollar paycheck.

The government HAS been cutting back on spending in recent years. The result has been feds getting their salaries and promotions frozen and contractors getting laid off. If the government cuts spending and doesn't increase taxes, how are they supposed to keep paying people who feel like they deserve a Mercedes Benz?

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