[quote=AN]This is exactly what I’m talking about. Once you get 3% in the bag, I can see, oh, we need more money, lets go for the top 5%, then 10%. After all, they’re rich and it’s only the top 5-10%. 90% of the people aren’t making that much money. They’re no where near middle class. It’ll only affect another handful of cities. This doesn’t affect the majority of cities and 90% of the people.

So, since there are only a handful of cities that have expensive cost of living, they don’t count then? Add in Irvine, LA, certain part of SD (if you hate traffic and want to live near work), Chicago, Seattle, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, etc. to you handful of cities.[/quote]

Right, and milk is just a gateway drug to heroin. That’s a new argument applied to taxes. I haven’t heard it before. (If that’s what you were talking about before, you failed to mention it.)

$250K a year will get you a solid middle class lifestyle in San Diego, as it will in LA, Chicago, Seattle, and every other city you listed there. RSF is not a middle class community. Neither is Beverly Hills or Malibu. Even in NYC, that kind of money is decent. Better than decent in Brooklyn. Middle class doesn’t mean having everything your neighbor has.