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$400,000 for an individual puts you at 99.5% limpyhobbler Jan 2013 #1
Well I was going by "all filers" jberryhill Jan 2013 #2
oh. The cliff deal made the Bush tax cuts permanent for individual filers making $400K/yr. limpyhobbler Jan 2013 #31
$250K and up is 99% vi5 Jan 2013 #3
$250,000 is the top 98 percent. n/t ProSense Jan 2013 #6
Type $250K into it... vi5 Jan 2013 #15
"Obama said he wanted the tax cuts on incomes above $250K to expire" jberryhill Jan 2013 #7
Pick and choose your phrasing all you want... vi5 Jan 2013 #13
What did you, personally, not get out of this deal? jberryhill Jan 2013 #23
Who said it was about me personally? vi5 Jan 2013 #25
Well, since you decided to turn a discussion into personal characterizations above... jberryhill Jan 2013 #29
I have been wondering about this too Puzzledtraveller Jan 2013 #4
Anyone who wants to gripe about the cutoff being $450,000 is really TwilightGardener Jan 2013 #5
This +1 Harmony Blue Jan 2013 #8
Its definately a disingenious gripe. phleshdef Jan 2013 #27
193,307 by your supplied link is 99% cutoff for single filer PowerToThePeople Jan 2013 #9
Okay, so the slogan was "the 99% of single people" jberryhill Jan 2013 #10
don't be that way PowerToThePeople Jan 2013 #14
Except income was never the intended metric. Wealth was. See my below. nt stevenleser Jan 2013 #17
I realize that PowerToThePeople Jan 2013 #19
Gotcha. Makes sense. nt stevenleser Jan 2013 #20
hey! why should the republicans be the only ones who have self-destructive internal civil wars? unblock Jan 2013 #11
99% is about wealth not income, which actually strengthens your point. To be 1% is $8.4 million in stevenleser Jan 2013 #12
If you make $250K you are in the 1% of all incomes. vi5 Jan 2013 #16
Except the 99% - 1% thing in Occupy was never about income, it was about wealth. nt stevenleser Jan 2013 #18
BS vi5 Jan 2013 #24
You can keep saying and posting that it isn't, but that doesn't make it so. phleshdef Jan 2013 #28
+1 n/t pnwmom Jan 2013 #22
This assumes you are saving via "coffee-can" account. PowerToThePeople Jan 2013 #26
True, but it also assumes not needing to spend a penny ever, for 20 years. And its also about... stevenleser Jan 2013 #30
"unthinking members of the progressive grassroots" jberryhill Jan 2013 #32
I could have been comfortable with twice that in income. Cleita Jan 2013 #21
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