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In reply to the discussion: So, making $250,000 means you're poor? [View all]FieryLocks
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So, making $250,000 means you're poor?
Gee, I wish I were that poor!
A lot of my conservative friends keep repeating that there shouldn't be tax increases on people making over $250,000 because they claim that it's "not much money at all."
Only if they are living waaay beyond their means and not being smart with their finances.
There is a post that just popped up in my feed from a friend who said that making $250,000 means "you're just getting by in this world."
HAHAHA! LOL! Ask them if people making a quarter of a million dollars a year ever have to decide on what bills to pay, if they or their kids ever go to bed without eating, if they have to clip coupons or use food stamps just to get by...I would bet not.
So, $250,000 is "rich" to me. I just wonder why so many say that amount is "barely anything."
It's not filthy rich but it's a lot more comfortable than what most people 'get by' on. This is all politics as usual with conservatives. They are led to believe that raising taxes on people making $250,000 a year or more will hurt job creation (lie). They did it during the Clinton years and these people still made out like bandits.
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That's about where you have to draw the dividing line to keep the lawyers on your side.
limpyhobbler
Nov 2012
#9
Annual earnings of $250,000 is not poor, but some people that earn that are over-extended.
bluestate10
Nov 2012
#11
Strangely many of the same people who claim $250,000 is not a lot of money...
Bjorn Against
Nov 2012
#15
$250k puts a person in the top 10 percent. Your chart shows this group has the most wealth.
Romulox
Nov 2012
#52
The problem is that areas where you can make $250K are very expensive areas
Fresh_Start
Nov 2012
#17
Depends on where you live: in SoCal, 250K is middle class suburban living, comfortable but not rich
GiaGiovanni
Nov 2012
#20
It's all relative. The $400k Mittens made for speaking really wasn't that much money to him.
MrSlayer
Nov 2012
#24
Exactly !! The very same people who claim 250K ain't nothing will not raise it at all
lunasun
Nov 2012
#48
We can probably put a number on what it takes to have a comfortable living
Dyedinthewoolliberal
Nov 2012
#32
All relative. To folks in Kenya and Tanzania, $24,000 a year makes YOU wealthy. There is also the
stevenleser
Nov 2012
#44
I'll never feel sorry for anyone making $250,000 a year. Tax the hell out of 'em...
Comrade_McKenzie
Nov 2012
#54
Under Obama's plan, a family making $250K would see no tax increase at all.
subterranean
Nov 2012
#62