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[quote=Anonymous][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]

You don't "graduate" from anything, you are "graduated from" an educational institution.  Your altruism for those whom you describe as having made bad choices is touching, condescending, but touching.  No one is holding a gun to your head and you are free to leave this area at anytime and relocate to NC and buy the mansion of your dreams.  In the meantime, you don't make the laws, so you will have to pay for for all those lazy bums who refuse to work because they want to stick it to you personally.  Good for them![/quote]

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