Let’s summarize here… The battle cry is the deficit and national debt but when it comes do something about it, some people don’t want to look at the numbers, as Harvey suggested, but they would rather argue semantics.
People making over $250,000 are in the top 3% of the population. So they are rich, or richest, if we are to argue semantics.
Let’s assume for a more moment that 70% of the top 3% are right leaning, so that makes 2.1% of the population (I don’t think it’s that high because high-earning professionals tend to be left leaning whereas millionaires, multi millionaires, and billionaires, who are much fewer, are more right leaning).
If we assume that the country is evenly politically divided among Republicans and Democrats. So you have about 96% of Republican riff-raffs (comparatively speaking) riled up about potential taxes on their richest members.
I know my calculations have flaws because of such things as children in the population and not everybody agrees, but this gives you an idea of type of political alignment.
If we used the word “richest” instead of “rich”, people like AN could be mollified?[/quote]
From now on, when someone asks someone else to pay more taxes, I’m just gonna start to ask “where’s YOUR fair share”?
