Yea, I got the point fine. There were posters itt who said repeatedly that there was no way someone making 250K a year could not be called rich. I just gave an example.
I would say someone making 250K yearly could be called wealthy if that 250K was adjusted for the cost of making it.

But anyway, someone once said that you cannot enrich someone by making someone else poorer, and I believe that to be true.

No, you didnt just give an example. You gave an example a person who didnt make 250k who isnt rich.

This is what I said:

Then, this is what you said:

So, no, I don't think you get it.

Cecil Newton?

William Boetcker

Claiming to be a scholar of the 50,000+ page tax code and all applications and variations ("the tax system"). I call BS.


Lol, I believe it is called climate change... it is not warming (too complicated for you I guess).

The most ridiculous, prejudice thing typed in two+two, to date.

See below.


See bolded.

The whole discussion started from whether a family with 250,000 in taxable income (by IRS standards) is rich. None of what you guys are talking about is considered income.

Lolz.. no wonder we can't agree on who qualifies as rich, we can't even calculate income properly in basic situations.

"You made 1k in poker? Yes, but how much did you LOSE?"

Crudefinder's that guy.

Well he'll get some tax breaks as a result.

Orly? The first 5 posts above your quote are from the first page. I can find lots more. But for arguments sake we will now stick to your new definition.

As if to prove my point.

lolll

Of course 250k/yr is rich. jesus

Lolz... I don't think that is necessarily true... but the small business taxation portion of this thread doesn't help at all.

A: I think taxes on small business are too high
B: Why?
A: {Totally incorrect calculation}
B: Yeah, that is totally wrong. Small businesses will usually pay like 5% of what you think they do.
A: I think taxes on small business are too high.

Just shrug off that 95% reduction and plow ahead.

Well, I guess if you rent and are in debt up to your eyebrows 250K would seem rich.

? How did you know?

Anyway top 0.0001% or w/e it is of earners on the planet is rich. Or at least, on 250/yr, you have the opportunity to be rich if you're not a total fool.

Awww, I wasn't talking about you man. I just meant that it's mostly the prespective of how you're looking at it.

Idiotic point of view. We're all rich if we compare ourselves to the rest of the planet.

You're not rich by my standards if you gross 250k and have a family to support on your own. Unless you somehow have significant wealth. I consider a person rich when they're more or less set for life. Not when they have a financial obligation to get up in the morning and go to work.

nah you're thinking of idle rich

Doing dumb **** does not stop someone from being rich. It just makes them rich and stupid.

You can make 250k a year, live in a van down by the river and have a 249k/year bonfire the day before tax day as some kind of ******o protest and you are still rich.

I just find it funny that the only sort of non-specific descriptive adjective we do this with is 'rich'.

Is 400 lbs. 'fat'? Nah, when I think of fat, I think of cutting out walls of the house, your boobs have boobs fat.

Is an IQ of 140 'smart'? Nah, when I think of smart, I think of move things with your mind and ****, Hannibal Lecture read your soul smart.

Is benching 300 lbs. 'strong'? No dude, when I think of strong, I think of pulling rigs with your testicles, ripping phone books in half strong.

Is someone who runs the 40 in 4.5 seconds 'fast'? No. Just Usain Bolt. He's the only one that is fast.

Seriously, there are degrees to this. Maybe someone who makes 250K isn't rich to the same degree someone making 10 million is, but they are still rich.

lol i like that ^

although the concept falls down a little bit when you consider that to be considered fat in america you have to be a lot bigger than what is considered fat in ethiopia.

The richer you can convince yourself someone is the less bad you have to feel about stealing from them.

As a misanthrope this does not concern me.

What a wonderful set of mantras you guys have designed for yourselves to keep repeating over and over.

"Stealing from them." Good one.

Raised taxes on the very wealthy = theft.

Corporate fraud, outsourcing and pension-destructive market policy = fair business practice.

Sure thing.

As a public school employee, I at least have the decency to steal from people proportionally or regressively.