kpete (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 09:47 AM
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Cocktail Crowd: "The well-off sector is tired of being beaten up."
Cocktail Crowd Split on Tax Plan
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"In New York City, being considered 'a millionaire' doesn't always mean you have so much extra cash. Five hundred thousand dollars goes to the city, state, and federal government. If you have kids in private school, that's about $105,000 in tuition, which pays teachers' salaries, janitors, etc. Mortgage and maintenance can easily be another $100,000 a year. That's lot of money already going into the economy. Over the last few years, relatively well-to-do New Yorkers have been made to feel as if they're doing something wrong by being successful and making money. The well-off sector is tired of being beaten up."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204226204...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2028247Freeloading Crowd: Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
ixion (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 09:55 AM
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4. perhaps they should stop beating on the working class, then
sounds like they love to dish it out, but can't take like returned in kind.
The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 09:57 AM
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5. My heart ****ing bleeds.
hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 09:58 AM
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6. The privileged class never gets the point until they are running for their lives.
Yeah, it's like that every few years, isn't it, DUmmy hobbitnumbers?
Ready4Change (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 10:08 AM
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10. Live within your means.
That's what's always said when referring to the lower classes. All those people losing their homes are said to have bought too much house.
Sending kids to a private school cost $105,000 a year. What's wrong with public schools? Oh, sorry, you have a million dollars. Public schools just wont do.
But for everyone else? Give up on owning a home and rent a trailer. Surrender your retirement plans and just be thankful IF you have any income at all. Name brand Kraft mac and cheese is unneeded luxury when their are generics that are just as orange.
Well, DUmmy, in a cesspool like New York, no decent person wants his children exposed to the children of the Kenyan's base.
At least the DUmmy is catching on re generic mac and cheese. Personally, I love ramen. I've had it for lunch when we had leftover baked scallops in the refrigerator.
Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 10:10 AM
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13. beaten up?????? Dear well-off sector,
please post pics of your black eyes . . .
Not another picture thread this soon. Wait a couple of weeks.
JBoy (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 10:17 AM
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15. Funny how their definition of "millionaire" differs from mine, too
I always understood a "millionaire" is someone who was worth a million, not someone who earned a million annually. If your income is a million dollars a year, you should be well past being a "millionaire".
Have to agree with DUmmy JBoy (is that a latter day cboy?). A million net worth is very common among normal middle class families who prospered through the Reagan Boom and the Great Bush Prosperity. I know the freeloading class at the DUmp doesn't believe that, but it's absolutely true. A million annual income is another breed of cat altogether. No similarity between the two.
HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 10:48 AM
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18. OK, whoever said that (don't know, because I'm not subscribing to WSMurdoch) . . .
. . . just really needs to shut the slappity **** up, like, NOW.
And who are they trying to bullshit . . . the government takes half? Horseshit. If that's the case, then you people have some really shit-bad accountants.
Someone hasn't totalled up all the ways the government gets its hand into your pocket.
Our friend DUmmy Lucian shows up:
Lucian (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 10:51 AM
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19. Awwww...I didn't know it was that hard to be a millionaire.
I worked full time last year and earned $12,000.
Try living on that assholes.
I wonder if the twelve grand includes his shoplifting profits from his former job at WalMart up there in Minnesota.
It would have been more if he hadn't wallduded himself.
frylock (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 11:35 AM
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20. perhaps a real, physical ass-kicking is in order to kinda help put things in perspective..
these sniveling ****wads have no idea what getting beat up is really all about. the single mom working multiple jobs just to put food on her fambly is getting beat up every ****ing minute of her life.
It isn't surprising that someone whose conversational vocabulary includes the word "****wads" can't spell "family".
Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 05:32 PM
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27. They better get used to it
It's not making money that wrong. It's making money in a way that pollutes the air and water, that drives middle class families out of their homes, that ships American jobs overseas, undermines democracy with bribes large campaign contributions and that destroys America's manufacturing base and replaces it with the unproductive, even destructive, financial service industry that's wrong.
Next time those mother****ers want a tax payer bailout, they can suck on it.
I'm sure, if that situation should arise, DUmmy Jack Rabbit will be asked to make the decision.
hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 07:13 PM
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32. If you make enough to pay a half mill in taxes
THEN YOU'RE MAKING TOO ******* MUCH MONEY!
If you make enough to pay a half million in taxes, good for you! The government is robbing you blind.
