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To: Cogito who wrote (213221)	12/31/2012 9:24:33 PM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541490

Not what I was trying to say The talk of not raising taxes on anyone making up to $400 or more as a measure to protect "middle income" earners is ludicrous More ludicrous even than the $250 that was tossed out by Obama as the upper limit on middle income The truth is that middle income, on average is actually somewhere below $75 on any realistic measure of central tendency for income in America So my point is that this whole debate about shifting a greater portion of the cost of government to folks better off was a stretch if we tried to use the cutoff at $250, and really anything above $75 IMO, is going beyond what I would consider "middle income" It just gets sillier and sillier and the water carriers for the pigs are dancing circles around Obama, who again, correctly, is trying to protect the 2,00,000 unemployed ..an under represented faction who are mercilessly used as pawns by the assholes in the GOP