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Does $150,000 Make You Rich?

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NRO's Byron York notices that Team Obama seems to be lowering the income threshold that determines who gets an Obama "tax cut." Let's put it this way: If you make more than $150,000, don't bother looking in the mailbox. And we are rapidly approaching the threshold where a married couple—the proverbial cop and school teacher—may be regarded as rich. Strange.

Tags:: 2008 presidential election,; Barack Obama,; taxes,; income,; federal taxes

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You're actually reporting this as fact... great journalism. What happened to fact checking? Interesting how the GOP can grab stuff out of thin air and it becomes fact instantly, but I guess that's what happens when you have a islam-o-muslim-terrorist-socialist-kenyan-born-commi running for president of the US eh?

AC of NV 12:04PM October 29, 2008

He had a childlike optimistic take on life. Me too.
And when confronted with harsh reality, as all of us often are, his phrase "what a revoltin' develpment that is" summed it up pretty well.
I always thought I was "middle class" and really fortunate to be able to always make it somehow after all as in the Mary Tyler Moore theme.
Then, along came all these "given" facts by the politicians that describe "middle class" and "rich" and "average" as figures that formerly--and still do--exist only in my imagination.
$60,000 a year, $150,000 a year, $250,000--hey, is that in a lifetime?
Now I finally learn that I've been only existing at and often below what is now officially described as the poverty level--except without the benefits thereof.
Who knew?

HillbillyBill of TN 8:17AM October 29, 2008

He had a childlike optimistic take on life. Me too.
And when confronted with harsh reality, as all of us often are, his phrase "what a revoltin' develpment that is" summed it up pretty well.
I always thought I was "middle class" and really fortunate to be able to always make it somehow after all as in the Mary Tyler Moore theme.
Then, along came all these "given" facts by the politicians that describe "middle class" and "rich" and "average" as figures that formerly--and still do--exist only in my imagination.
$60,000 a year, $150,000 a year, $250,000--hey, is that in a lifetime?
Now I finally learn that I've been only existing at and often below what is now officially described as the poverty level--except without the benefits thereof.
Who knew?

HillbillyBill of TN 8:17AM October 29, 2008

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