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Jackpine Radical

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5. I agree with your point about where the Middle Class ends,

Mon Dec 31, 2012, 04:56 PM

Dec 2012

or maybe I'd put it at $150k or something, but I'm also not too concerned with where Obama is setting the bar at this point.

I think just maybe, even at $400k, he knows the Republicans won't/can't go for it, and he will then pull it back after having tarred them quite rightly with the inflexible extremist brush.

At least I hope that's what's going on.

Also, a deal that guarantees UI, ends the tax breaks on the very top end, preserves adequate provider payments in MC & contains no chains in the CPI would be maybe OK for the short term. I'm not going to slap him around just now. Let's see where the dust settles.

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The $250K bar is way too high... [View all] kentuck Dec 2012 OP

Totally agree with you on that. However, it seems the Democratic Party has become the party of the Mass Dec 2012 #1

Right because "the rest" aren't benefitting at all from having their taxes cut. phleshdef Dec 2012 #3

Well said nt One of the 99 Dec 2012 #6

I guess Occupy was wrong to make it about the 99% then. phleshdef Dec 2012 #2

When did $250,000 become the top 4 percent? ProSense Dec 2012 #4

I agree with your point about where the Middle Class ends, Jackpine Radical Dec 2012 #5

You know I agree with that NNN0LHI Dec 2012 #7

it takes about a 100k/year for a family to rent a 2 bedroom apartment around here CreekDog Dec 2012 #8

My Dad works at Ford plant and mother for the state as a social worker together make 140K SpartanDem Dec 2012 #9

Should you have to be rich before you pay any taxes?? kentuck Dec 2012 #10

What percentile of the population do they fall in? TheKentuckian Dec 2012 #12

If the goal posts are stuck, move the field. JoePhilly Dec 2012 #11