Who is BRTD supporting for President?

[dead0man]

$75k in boston is barely middle class.

obama is out of touch.

Is Boston that much more expensive than Minneapolis? My $25k/year job is perfectly sufficient for me.

According to this website, if the cost of living in the US is = 100, Boston is a 126 and Minneapolis/St.Paul is 107.  Housing is 148 vs 95.  It says it's 15.1% cheaper to live where you live.  Omaha is overall an 83 and housing is 52.  No housing bubble here!

[Хahar 🤔]

$75k in boston is barely middle class.

obama is out of touch.

Is Boston that much more expensive than Minneapolis? My $25k/year job is perfectly sufficient for me.

According to this website, if the cost of living in the US is = 100, Boston is a 126 and Minneapolis/St.Paul is 107.  Housing is 148 vs 95.  It says it's 15.1% cheaper to live where you live.  Omaha is overall an 83 and housing is 52.  No housing bubble here!

52? Housing here is 295.

[JSojourner]

Why do the Democrats hate the rich? Obama wants to double the capital gains taxes? That hurts a lot more than the rich. However, if you make over $75,000 a year, you are considered rich to the Dems! I guess their argument makes sense.

Who said anything about 75-K being rich?  The figure I keep hearing is between 200 and 250-K per year.  I realize Lauch Faircloth considered people earning 400-K per year to be middle class, but it's just not so.

I really don't know how I feel about taxing capital gains.  We get nailed because we're pretty well off.  But we consider it a privilege to pay taxes.  You know that whole "promote the general welfare" thing?  We really believe it.