Posted on 11/23/2007 6:20:33 AM PST by grundle
Democrats like to define themselves as the party of poor and middle-income Americans, but a new study says they now represent the majority of the nation's wealthiest congressional districts.
In a state-by-state, district-by-district comparison of wealth concentrations based on Internal Revenue Service income data, Michael Franc, vice president of government relations at the Heritage Foundation, found that the majority of the nation's wealthiest congressional jurisdictions were represented by Democrats.
He also found that more than half of the wealthiest households were concentrated in the 18 states where Democrats hold both Senate seats.
"If you take the wealthiest one-third of the 435 congressional districts, we found that the Democrats represent about 58 percent of those jurisdictions," Mr. Franc said.
A key measure of each district's wealth was the number of single-filer taxpayers earning more than $100,000 a year and married couples filing jointly who earn more than $200,000 annually, he said.
But in a broader measurement, the study also showed that of the 167 House districts where the median annual income was higher than the national median of $48,201, a slight majority, 84 districts, were represented by Democrats. Median means that half of all income earners make more than that level and half make less.
Mr. Franc's study also showed that contrary to the Democrats' tendency to define Republicans as the party of the rich, "the vast majority of unabashed conservative House members hail from profoundly middle-income districts."
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The first is that they are totally invested in Socialism cradle to grave domination of their subjects(voter base).
The second is victory/unity at any cost.
Whether its selling out the troops in a war we are winning, dissing our President at every turn,(BDS) creating a base that will be totally dominated by govt. as in the New Orleans fiasco or whatever, the dirty dems will do anything to establish a voter base.
Their lust to get motor or voters, illegals, to let our borders go unsecured, all of these things are about buying votes with anything they can muster at any price.
Once we prove these two issues to the prospective voter simple logic should point them our way. If not they are hopeless anyway.
Actually, Liberals give more to charities and are more likely to donate to the poor. They just want to do so via government as the middleman.
Exactly the entire purpose of liberalism/socialism/democrats is to use our money against us just like the terrorists use everything of ours they can against us(Our planes,drivers licenses, money etc) do very little difference.
Exactly. Rich oil barons pale in comparison to the money HOLLYWOOD throws around.
Worse still, the BIG entertainment INDUSTRY has an extreme amount of influence on the lives of the ignorant.
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I saw a survey posted in the WSJ a couple years ago comparing the wealth of respective Democrat and Republican Congressmen and Senators. The Democrats were far wealthier than the Republicans. The so-called party of the poor Democrats is obscenely rich compared to the party-of-the-rich Republicans.
I’ve been saying this for a decade... the Democrat party is made up of socialist elitists, and those that have bought into the lie that they can’t make it without guv’mint intervention...
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It’s seemed to me for quite a while that the Democrats have become a coalition of rich people whose primary concerns are socially liberal (gay marriage, etc.), and poor people whose concerns are primarily economically liberal (health care, jobs, etc.).
Meanwhile the GOP is more often the party of those in the middle economically.
It’s the rich and poor versus the middle class.
I think there are still a lot of wealthy people who support the GOP, but I bet that on average the way they earned their money is profoundly different from how the wealthy Democrats earned theirs.
We have a $14 trillion Gross Domestic Product. $2.7 trillion, or 19% of total GDP represents Federal, State, and local government spending. Even after you back out "necessary and essential" service such as national defense, police, fire, schools, and infrastructure, there is approximately $1.4 trillion of government spending that represents nothing more than theft, under the protection of a government "flag," of wealth from private individuals. In addition, there is probably a significant percentage of "unnecessary and nonessential" spending buried in the defense, police, fire, schools and infrastructure budgets.
I can't think of another line of business with a better reward/risk ratio than Federal, State, or local government. I get a guaranteed cut of at least 19% of each individual's productivity with minimal marketing and collection costs and I only need to spend about half of that to meet my legal responsibilities. The remaining $1.3+ trillion is mine to spend to reward friends and supporters or enrich myself. If it weren't for the overwhelming stench of corruption, I could almost admire their chutzpah.
Until tar, feathers, the rail, pitchforks, torches, the stocks, the pillory, public humiliation, and the occasional public execution become commonplace enough that they figure into the daily calculus of every elected official and every government employee at all levels, the problem will not be solved.
"Public service" should demand putting your 'life, fortune, and sacred honor" on the line every single day, and not become a guaranteed sinecure.
this isn’t really news to me. rich people like to feel like they are helping out the lower class by voting democrat. at cocktail parties they like to say how charitable they are. but give them a chance to pay less taxes and watch them run towards it!
Why is this even considered news? The names Kerry, Kennedy, Boxer, Feinstein, Soros, Turner, Hollywood,etc., aren’t new.
This is only partly true. The dems are a coalition of the wealthy, government employees, and the poor against the middle-class. The deal is: the dems pay bribes to the poor and gvt employees (welfare, pensions, ridiculous job security provisions etc). In exchange, the poor and gvt employees allow the dems to wage war on middle class morality and upward mobility and to degrade America's status as a powerful, sovereign nation with UN and internationalist nonsense.
The wedge in the coalition is that sometimes the war on middle class morality or the surrender of our sovereignty or position in the world goes too fast and some of the poor and gvt employees break off and vote for R's. Hence, Reagan democrats.
LBJ created this coalition with the Great Society. It grows stronger over time as more and more people become addicted to the government bribes.
The only way to "break the dems" socialistic hold on govt. spending is to expose them.
It's near impossible to expose them before their own media,the msm/DBM, therefore the New Media is our only hope.
If we can't do it on talk radio, the Internet and a few papers/tv nets that get it, it probably won't get done.
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