Average salaries going UP is always a positive for working Americans. Certainly the alternative is unattractive.First of all, spin-boy, the point was, what is happening to salaries? You say they went up. But, after inflation, they went down. And that is what the bottom line is. Salaries could have gone up 10 percent last year - but if inflation was fifteen percent, folks are way behind. Just ask folks from the 1970s about that.
You have already admitted that your paycheck is larger due to Bush's tax cuts, so your tax burden is lower, not higher.
You act as if the federal income tax is the only tax we pay. Hint - it isn't. I pay state tax, Wilmington city tax, FICA, and myriad other taxes.
That you feel compelled to go into future "might be" scenarios simply shows that your overall argument has no merit today.
Uh, dude, government salaries went up last year. That isn't the future, that's the immediate past.
You just can't help yourself, can you? You are making not one lick of sense.
"First of all, spin-boy, the point was, what is happening to salaries? You say they went up. But, after inflation, they went down. And that is what the bottom line is."
No, that's not the bottom line. American industry and the jobs market is one thing, how much cash that the federal government puts into circulation (i.e. inflation) is an entirely different beast. A beast, I might add, that **you** felt compelled to dredge up to cover up your earlier insinuation that wages had actually declined (which they did not do).
In the jobs market, salaries went up by 1.7% last year. Now you hate that fact because you want to paint a negative picture. You want everyone to see gloom and doom. But the sky isn't falling simply because the official inflation rate was 2.2% last year.