kv wrote:i don't care where you live 250k is rich and i live in so cal
AS wrote: $250,000 a year is more money than nearly anyone on this board, in the United States, and on this planet generally, will ever make.
LJF is basically just protecting his own interests again. I don't begrudge him that, so long as he isn't saying things that are false, but here he's just willfully demanding that we change the meaning of "rich" to suit his interests.
Under [Obama's] plan, Americans who make more than $250,000 a year — the top 2 percent of taxpayers — would see their tax rates go back up next year to the levels from the Clinton years
Explain to me: A) how the top 2% aren't rich; and B) how raising the highest marginal rate by 3% would have any significant effect on their ability to pay for their holiday home and their BMW?
Also, note the following:
A law passed in 1917 made Puerto Ricans U.S. citizens. But the Caribbean island's roughly 4 million residents cannot vote for president
Under its status as a commonwealth, Puerto Rico is subject to U.S. federal laws, though island residents are exempt from some federal taxes. Puerto Rico has a nonvoting representative in Congress.
First of all, it seems absurd that some American citizens aren't being afforded full rights. Second, LJF seems not to have noticed that if they got Statehood, my joke about Texas paying for their pensions would be moot, since they wouldn't be exempt from some federal taxes anymore and may be forced to pay for more stuff themselves. I used Texas in what I said because Texas is already a net provider of revenue to the Federal Government. Ironically, Texas probably IS already subsidizing Puerto Rico.