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To: ctdonath2
But they are not blindly included. Yeah I'm sure a stray case here and there gets in. But very, very few "rich" people have no income. Indeed, most of them have more income from their investments than the average person makes in salary. That is, there are far fewer rich people included in the poverty figures than Neal would like you to believe.
59 posted on 08/27/2004 10:53:28 AM PDT by mcg1969
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To: mcg1969

Didn't say "no income". A couple spending a year living in a $200K motorhome at a campground near a beach in Florida doesn't need much income to be very comfortable (appeals to me). They use just enough interest from their investments to get by, plowing the rest back into their pre-tax investments.

Also didn't say there were a lot of them. Problem is, between them and others operating off capital (little/no income), under the table (little official income), criminals (really unofficial income), and those leeching off the system (playing games with what's income), plus those at the upper end of the "poverty" scale (way better off than half the world), it's kinda hard to see who really is hardcore genuine "poor".

Point is: if you want to help the poor (and yes, there are real genuine painfully tragic poor), simple income is a lousy measure thereof.


61 posted on 08/27/2004 11:07:12 AM PDT by ctdonath2
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