Comments | coco_b: newsflash - WSJ writes for the wealthy

coco_b

newsflash - WSJ writes for the wealthy

Sep 24, 2008 11:49

WSJ has an article on "How Your Taxes Will Fare Under Obama, McCain." They show a chart that starts at a household income of $80,000. For those not in tune with income distribution in the U.S., only about 25% of the households in the country make more than $80K. So I guess they figured the 75% of the households who make less than $80K per year aren ( Read more... )

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kylegirl September 24 2008, 16:46:57 UTC

Ha! That's obnoxious, unsurprising, and totally hilarious.

grahams September 24 2008, 17:28:43 UTC

Not to mention listing the only datapoint for Single people at ~ $120k

kylegirl September 24 2008, 17:46:31 UTC

Yes, that is very useful and reflective of my life experience and the those of my friends and neighbors. And I'm even a semi-regular WSJ reader!

grahams September 24 2008, 17:48:14 UTC

I am very fortunate and make, what I (and most) would consider to be a very nice salary, and I don't even come CLOSE to that figure... :)

anonymous September 24 2008, 19:48:35 UTC

At least they showed Obama was lowering taxes, that's more than I expected of them. And I wonder why they don't mention McCain's plan to start taxing employer given health care benefits. Yeah, McCain is adding a tax. In fairness they do say that probably both candidates will have to raise taxes given the financial system bailout. -H