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02-21-2008, 11:30 AM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
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Question-
I know they're going to end the war, tax Big oil, Pharma, CEO slaries and the rich to put a chicken in all of our pots,
but what do these politicians consider rich for a two parent working family?
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" Choose Life "
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02-22-2008, 07:11 PM
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Master of Ceremonies
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Rhodie
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You have a job.
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"Cause you can't starve us out, and you can't make us run" Hank Jr.
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02-25-2008, 03:45 PM
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Keep The Change
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Road to Serfdom
Posts: 3,275
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They are in Congress with a majority, why the F%^& aren't they doing it now?????????????
You're rich if you aren't on the dole already....
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“It’s not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections,” Antonin Scalia
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02-25-2008, 03:54 PM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
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100-150K per year.
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02-25-2008, 04:38 PM
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Spot Preserver
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Mansfield
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RIJIMMY
100-150K per year.
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That ain't rich. thats middle class.  |
Make America Great Again.
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02-26-2008, 11:20 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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Amazing that 100-150 is MIDDLE CLASS, although I believe that anything over 100K used to be 90th percentile for wage earners in the USA.
Sad.
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02-26-2008, 11:33 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Easton, MA
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I think it depends on where you live. Here in the northeast or in other parts of the country, $100K to $150K is middle class or upper middle class. In some parts of the country, it would be considered upper class. Think about the cost of living in some parts of the country and what you'd be able to afford on your current salary there.
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02-26-2008, 11:48 AM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
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no worries the Dems will tax all the "rich" folks so even the folks that work hard can be lower middle class or poor.
Its called communism, err, I mean equality
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02-26-2008, 09:59 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fishbones
I think it depends on where you live. Here in the northeast or in other parts of the country, $100K to $150K is middle class or upper middle class. In some parts of the country, it would be considered upper class. Think about the cost of living in some parts of the country and what you'd be able to afford on your current salary there.
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What salary? |
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02-26-2008, 10:15 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Easton, MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by striperman36
What salary?
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How about "income" instead of salary? 
I know that we were very well off growing up with 2 parents that had decent jobs and 4 kids. Now, I have a very good job and my wife has a great gig as a consultant and we definitely don't have the same standard of living that my parents had when I was a kid. And I only have one child, to boot. The costs of goods and services have increased faster than wages, and now we just have a lot more bills to pay. What kind of extra money would you have in your bank account if you didn't have to pay for cable, cell phones, internet service, satellite radio, custom plugs, etc.... |
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02-27-2008, 02:18 PM
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Mosholu
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NYC
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For 2006 according to the US Census Bureau Median Income family of four:
Connecticut: 93,831
Rhode Island: 78,189
New York: 75,513
Mass: 89,347
If you figure 50% are above this figure and 50% below, where the posters claim the middle class is are probably spot on. These figures will vary depending on where you live. Also these figures do not take into account COL which I would think spiked in 2007 and the first quarter of 2008 with the increase in energy prices.
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02-27-2008, 07:33 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 4 hours from my favorite place
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mosholu
For 2006 according to the US Census Bureau Median Income family of four:
Connecticut: 93,831
Rhode Island: 78,189
New York: 75,513
Mass: 89,347
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That sounds more like it. If 100-150 is middle class everyone I know lives in poverty. |
Simplify.......
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02-27-2008, 07:45 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Whitman,Ma.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by keeperreaper
That ain't rich. thats middle class. |
If thats middle class, I'm in trouble..I must be in the lower class  |
I'm going where I'm going... 
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