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To: DallasBiff

“...households earning under $100,000...”

How is it that taking in $100k is poverty?


3 posted on 11/03/2025 3:06:30 PM PST by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: Paladin2

>> households earning under $100,000... CEO Scott Boatwright said

getting that financial data from the credit card companies?

I recall justified privacy complaints against the govt from many years ago — I felt everything there is to know about me can be surmised from my credit cards.


6 posted on 11/03/2025 3:14:18 PM PST by Gene Eric
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To: Paladin2

I make far less, and I still eat out a fair amount, but not at Chipotle.


8 posted on 11/03/2025 3:15:20 PM PST by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: Paladin2

$100,000 is slightly more than perhaps $20,000 was nearly 50 years ago. I was paid $18,500 a year as a new Engineer back in 1978. I understand now new engineers if they can find a job are starting at $65,000 a year. That is far less than the inflation adjusted amount that I began working for. Wages in this country are being compressed and more and more money is going to the corner office the Board Room and profits. That is why chipotle is only an expense account lunch stop. It is also why a vast majority of the wealth in this country is concentrated in a minuscule minority of the people.


9 posted on 11/03/2025 3:15:31 PM PST by Sequoyah101
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To: Paladin2

People on govt assistance make that much with all their benefits. In big cities it’s not a lot of money..


38 posted on 11/03/2025 5:03:04 PM PST by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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To: Paladin2

“How is it that taking in $100k is poverty?”

Dang it, I’m poor! And I didn’t know it...


39 posted on 11/03/2025 5:04:04 PM PST by Mr Rogers
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