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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gray wants to raise taxes on the "wealthy" and he keeps using this $200k number. We can debate the merits of tax increases (I think the city has more to cut first) but a family in DC making $200k is not really wealthy. After TAXES and education costs most of that money has evaporated. Why are politicians so disingenuous?[/quote]

Less than 2% of the population make your HHI so that must mean that you are better off than 98% of the population.  What do you think?[/quote]

I think I worked my ass off. I graduated high school (while working at Taco Bell), got a job paying roughly $15k/year, worked my ass off, went to college at night, earned promotion after promotion at work, earned my Master's at night, and worked and worked. Didn't get married and start a family until my 30s.  Had roomates almost the entire time I was single. So yes, I make 100k now, which is great.  My husband has a very similiar story, he was even a DC cop for a while, and now makes $140k. So tell me why should I subsidize people that have no desire to work hard or even work? I see "now hiring" signs everywhere.

I do believe there are people that made a few bad choices and need a helping hand to get on the right track and are willing to work.  But I see far more that expect those of us that have worked hard to subsidize their continued poor choices and unwillingness to work.[/quote]

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