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Originally Posted by FlyWf
I don't think you get why it sounds bad. I think you believe it sounds bad because it's callous and tone deaf, but it actually sounds bad because it's incredibly stupid. Like at the core point, why is it so important to you to not be labeled rich? Figure that out, and everything will fall into place.
It's not and I don't know why you think it is, my posts itt were about whether people who make less are automatically rich. I am completely fine with being labeled rich, it's accurate in some ways but maybe not in others.
I'm currently in Europe for a light work trip....I'm working maybe 25 hrs a week and a lot of that is buying meals for subordinates. My employer payed for me to bring my daughter and a nanny along since my wife didn't want to go because we have twins too young to really gain anything but she wanted the experience for the eldest. I can see how that would be inconcievable to a lot of people making 250k, and I have no problem if they think they are not rich and I am.
Of course there are also a lot of ways in which I am culturally closer to upper middle class or below. I am asset poor since I've only been working for a couple years and 90+% of what it will take to continue the lifestyle I am living is tied up in future labor and not wealth ownership. But bringing it all back home to the initial OP, I could easily afford a 3% tax increase on income over 250k and I think it's crazy that anybody couldn't.