Romney thinks middle class income $200,000. to $250,000.

[man4allcats]

Source: AP
Author: Steve Peoples

This is the back-tracking version.
BOSTON — Mitt Romney is promising to reduce taxes on middle-income Americans.

But how does he define "middle-income"? The Republican presidential nominee defined it Friday as income of $200,000 to $250,000 a year and less.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49035484#.UFPLl65cgis



This is re-post of INdemo's locked post and thread from LBN at http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014230603

[wryter2000]

1. And less

Which means he thinks the upper limit is between 200K and 250K. That may be clueless, but it doesn't mean he thinks anyone below 200K is lower class.

I'm not defending him. He's suggesting that someone at 11K is middle class. He seems to have no idea some people in this country are poor.

[The Wielding Truth]

2. Wow. If that were only true! But his sense of this country soooo far from reality.

[man4allcats]

3. What insanity!

I have a professor friend whose Rice University Phi Beta Kappa 25 year old daughter graduated this spring from Harvard Law. Her first job upon leaving school will pay this young single woman in excess of 160K. I think that's great, but I guess by Mitt's standards she's little more than a pauper. I should have been so lucky in my lifetime.

[struggle4progress]

4. bwaa-haa-haa!

one step closer to toast

[Warpy]

5. I've always wanted to sit these entitled goons down

and give them a post tax take home pay of about $38,000/year. I'd present them with a newspaper from a random city (chosen by dart into a map of the country) and have them read the real estate ads and the grocery circulars and design a budget for that amount. I'd then tell them they had to save a great deal more for things like car loans and repairs, student loan payments, doctor copays, dental checkups, clothing, entertainment, and the rest of what makes life more than a miserable treadmill.

I wouldn't let them out of that room until they either cried uncle or managed to submit a budget someone could survive on.

At that point, they might be qualified to speak about kitchen table economics. Now, forget it.

And he's right about the amount of wages it takes to support a middle class family now with the middle class perks of household help (whether or not they have any), travel once or twice a year, paid college for offspring, and investment for retirement.

The rest of us are working class or below.

[Locut0s]

8. The sad thing is these fuckers would just blame the people making less...

I totally agree with you and have wanted to do the same with right wing people here in Canada too. But I know their response would be, " yeah so... tough luck that's the job you chose". As if people don't deserve to make a living unless they go into business law or one of the "chosen" "successful" careers. These people make me physically ill.

[Xipe Totec]

6. He may be right

And 99% of Americans no longer belong to the middle class.

[man4allcats]

7. Huh huh!

I know I sure don't!

[Warpy]

9. I inherited a middle class net worth

but since I can't work any more (or even just as much), I am living on the working class income it affords.

And I am damned grateful for it.