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>People that call for “the rich” to pay more taxes usually mean those earning above 100k. Good Lord, 100k? I was making more than that in 1999. When I say rich

• dragonwriter 3y ago
  No, 2.5× the median personal income isn’t “just over poverty”.
  • harimau777 3y ago
    That depends on whether the median person is living in poverty or not. There are definitely places in the US where it would be very difficult to raise a family or buy a home on the median income.
    • dragonwriter 3y ago
      > That depends on whether the median person is living in poverty or not. Well, no, even if we stretched the definition of poverty to cover people making the national median personal income, people making 2.5× that still wouldn’t be in or just over poverty, but, sure, if you redefine poverty to include the wealthy than the wealthy are “poor”. But there are people actually in poverty by its common definition, and people making $100k/yr—which was asserted to be on the edge of poverty generally these days upthread—have more in common with people making $1 million/yr than with those people in actual poverty. > There are definitely places in the US where it would be very difficult to raise a family or buy a home on the median income. “It’s difficult to buy a home” isn’t poverty, and the subject wasn't people earning the median personal income but $100k/yr.