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“If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.” Henry David Thoreau I'm 57, unabashedly and passionately Southern and equally so, American paleo-libertarian. Forged in a segregated democrat South as a young white boy and a fan of NASCAR watched a man named Wendell Scott do more to further race relations in the South than the esrtwhile MLK. Sleep well, Mr Scott.... Wendell. We remember. I shall exert every faculty I possess in aiding to prevent the Constitution from being nullified, destroyed, or impaired; and even though I should see it fail, I will still, with a voice feeble, perhaps, but earnest as ever issued from human lips, and with extinguish, call on the people to come to its rescue. – Daniel Webster
In 2010, does $250,000/year income make you "rich" or middle class?
Obama wants all those who earn $250,000 a year to pay more in taxes. Fifty years ago, that $250,000 would have been a lot of money... today...not so much. Fifty years ago, my Dad bought some land and built a house for under $15,000. Today the same land and house is valued, for tax purposes, at over 150,000. It's not so much the property has "increased" in value as the dollar has "decreased" in value, yet 50 years ago he was in the middle class. Fifty years ago, Obama's $250,000 floor would have been $31,700 so Obama is talking about increasing taxes on the middle class.
There’s a “calculator” at the link below that calculates what could be purchased in 1956 for $1.00 required spending $7.89 in 2009 and in the last year, it’s gotten worse.
What that means is, in 1956, a family with income of $31,700/year would have to earn $250,000/year just to stay in the same echelon of the “middle class”, in 2009.
13 AnswersOther - Politics & Government1 decade agoAnybody else think this comment sounds like any other Earnhardt?
Speaking of his most recent engine failure at Marty, Junior was quoted as saying, “I am not upset at all, I put those tailpipes on those other boys' ears so they could hear we were on seven cylinders and still driving by them.”
15 AnswersNASCAR1 decade agoWill any of the other 48 States ever catch the Carolinas in NASCAR wins and Titles?
Since 1949, a Carolina-born driver has won at least one race each season. That streak is in jeopardy in 2007.
34 Carolina-born drivers have:
Total wins: 981
Total Titles: 33
7 AnswersNASCAR1 decade ago