McCain Jokes About His Definition Of The Rich: ‘How About $5 Million?’

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McCain Jokes About His Definition Of The Rich: ‘How About $5 Million?’

Last night, during his Saddleback Church presidential forum, Pastor Rick Warren asked both Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) to “define rich.” With regard to tax brackets, “where do you move from middle class to rich?” Warren asked. Obama said, “if you are making $150,000 a year or less, as a family, then you’re middle class.”

McCain, however, dismissed Warren’s question, asking in jest, “How about $5 million?”

WARREN: Everybody talks about, you know, taxing the rich, but not the poor, the middle class. At what point, give me a number, give me a specific number. Where do you move from middle class to rich? <…>

MCCAIN: How about $5 million? No, but seriously, I don’t think you can, I don’t think seriously that the point is I’m trying to make, seriously, and I’m sure that comment will be distorted but the point is…that we want to keep people’s taxes low, and increase revenues. … So, it doesn’t matter really what my definition of rich is because I don’t want to raise anybody’s taxes. I really don’t.

Watch it:

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McCain is right — millionaires are rich. In fact, those making $5 million per year or more are wealthier than 99.99% of all Americans. All but the nation’s wealthiest five percent, have household incomes of less than $174,000 per year.

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McCain summarized his position at the time saying, “I’m not giving tax cuts for the rich.” Now McCain is proposing to do exactly that. McCain — who, by his own definition, is rich — would get a if his proposals were enacted. McCain would decrease middle-class Americans’ tax bills by just $319.

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[JackBeck]

1. And the elite, fundy crowd ate it up.

It was a disgusting answer given during an otherwise putrid display of the worst kind of pandering.

[hisownpetard]

2. Another fudged non-answer. McCain needed cue cards to tell him how much a gallon of milK costs,

and he has absolutely no clue what the average American makes per year,
he's so used to having an unlimited allowance from his sugar-mommy, Cindy.

Ed:typo

[gateley]

3. Ha ha ha. That's obscene. nt

[hisownpetard]

4. Yeah. Sort of made me throw up a little in my mouth when I typed it...

[patrice]

5. The Real Issue isn't so much the Taxes but: WHAT WE ARE GETTING FOR OUR TAXES. Eternal War? or . . .

American Social Justice?

[patrice]

6. How many of these have state of the art Nuclear Bomb Shelters?

http://www.mccainvminnesota.com/cribs.html

[rurallib]

7. If businesses ran like the repugs run the government

then the price of gas would go down every time the cost of a barrel of oil went up. Gas would be about a nickel a gallon and Exxon would be declaring that they are making tons of money. What would really be happening is that every time we bought gas there would be a secret debit to our grandkids.