Posted on 10/09/2004 6:57:32 AM PDT by JohnRand
Kerry: "...And looking around here, at this group here, I suspect there are only three people here who are going to be affected: the president, me, and, Charlie, I'm sorry, you too."
Kerry speaking in last evening's debate about his plan to raise taxes on people making 200k+ annually. So now John Kerry is prejudging people by just looking at them to determine their income?!? He decided that the only people in the room that qualified as his new tax-hike victims were himself, Bush and Charlie Gibson! Wow, a big criticism many liberals have of Bush is his supposed "arrogance", there was simply nothing more arrogant and ignorant than that statement that Kerry made and it will probably haunt his campaign...
I want to know who is paying for Mama T's hair do's. With all that money, you would think she could buy a comb or something.
thanks, and that's a great way to put it.
The bright side is that doctors are donating to Bush at unprecedented levels.
-ccm
I was studying to be an industrial engineer when I left that course of study to go into the ministry. When one of my engineering friends called and mentioned what his starting salary was (3x mine), I was truly happy for him.
Because I am not envious, I can say that it is simply not right that I'm in a lower tax bracket when others who studied and/or worked toward their higher-paying field get put in a higher tax bracket.
I've worked extremely hard, and will eventually get my Ph.D. (Lord willing), but it's not fair that others who work in a more profitable field are punished for it.
Everyone should be in one low, low tax bracket and spending should be curbed. The "rich" will still pay far more taxes than me, but on an equal scale. The present system is born out of envy, born out of socialism.
If the Democrats were really for equality, they would treat the rich and poor the same, wouldn't they?
I am overweight, wear a Citizen watch, have facial hair, get $8 haircuts, wear dockers & polo shirts and $40 shoes with cheap black crew socks. I drive a 20 year old Mercedes diesel. Do I make over $200,000? Guess.
If you're not from one of the coasts (Kerry-MA, Bush-DC, Gibson-NYC) you obviously can't be making 200 large. Everyone in the Midwest, South and other "flyover" states have lost their jobs during the "Bush=Hoover" administration, and are now working for 50% less, don't ya know?
Maybe that's the explanation. The middle class doesn't exist.
Maybe to him the middle class is another segment of the "poor".
Typical socialist. It's only the ruling class/elite, and the proletariate, to him.
Mama T does her own hair...
I read that in some interview she gave.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Much as I enjoy popping on Kerry he's kind of right. Something I learned in investor meetings and even more so at a party my company had where we invited investors. You can generally spot rich people by their shoes and their watch, no matter how dressed down they are they generally have only really nice shoes and watches to chose from.
My sister and I went shopping this morning and talked about it. She and her husband are pretty non-political but she said they it really got her goat that he would make a judgement like that about the people in the audience.
Actually she said something like,"That B@st@rd had some nerve saying that about people he does not even know."
Exactly, I use to work on a farm in the summer. During the harvest season it was not unusual to have a payrole of $100,000 a week.
One percent of America, the highest one percent of income earners in America, got $89 billion of tax cut last year. One percent of America got more than the 80 percent of America that earned from $100,000 down.
The president thinks it's more important to fight for that top 1 percent than to fight for fiscal responsibility and to fight for you.
I want to put money in your pocket. I am -- I have a proposal for a tax cut for all people earning less than the $200,000. The only people affected by my plan are the top income earners of America.
"I want to know who is paying for Mama T's hair do's."
Don't think she's paying $1000 for a cut, the way her husband is.
I think her style is an ill-advised attempt at the rumpled just- got -out- of bed look that can only work if you're twenty years old.
This is a barf alert , but I always wonder - do you think Kerry and Mama T actually have sex ?
Bunk. In my experience, wealthy people are not pretentious.
Yeah, I raised eyebrows when he said that. Just more proof of how utterly out of touch he is with normal people. Probably never had to really work a day in his life, and he has no concept of normal income, no concept of earning something himself, doesn't even know what it means. Sickening.
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You might want to see this.
An exact fit with what you heard on NPR!
BTTT
It's not a matter of pretentiousness. It's just a matter of what they buy. If it was pretentiousness they'd wear tuxedos everywhere and you could spot them easily. But shoes and watches (and glasses, but you can't count on people wearing glasses at all) are things people tend to buy the best that they can afford.
Good looking watches and shoes go with everything, if you're dressed up they make you look better, if you're dressed down (which being as this was in Tucson most of the time when I delt with investors they were dressed down, nobody here wears a tie if they don't have to) the don't look wierd. And well crafted watches and shoes are more comfortable to wear and last longer. Thus if a person is in the investor class, if you look at their wrist and their feet when you shake their hand you're probably gonna see at least $1500 worth of hardware, not pretentiousness just functionality and comfort.
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