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In reply to the discussion: So, making $250,000 means you're poor? [View all]salin
(48,955 posts)36. They are spending their earnings.
Live large - and then complain that one has as many hardships as people earning 8x less.
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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