OK, I’m below average.Įven worse, this 50% thing makes me feel horribly guilty. Romney said the average middle-income family earned $250,000. I got a good education, have graduate degrees, repaid my student loans, live pretty comfortably, don’t live paycheck to paycheck, own my home, and have some savings and retirement. Learning that I’m not a 50%-er was a surprise. If he were a 35%-er, paying the top tax rate, surely he’d proudly tell us, but we’ll never know because his lips are sealed. If he is a 0%-er, can he vote for himself in good conscience? It takes real political courage to call half the country a bunch of moochers who feel “entitled” when you belong to that club. On the other hand, some say he has been 0%-er on some of his tax returns. Since I pay income tax, he must be counting on my vote. Romney recently criticized 47%-ers for being 0%-ers and paying no federal income tax.

My rate is much higher because I work for a living and don’t have overseas investments. Am I in the 99%, the 50%, the 47% or 100%?īeing in the 1% in the top 1% of income and wealth would be nice, but I’m not.Įven being in the top 13% and paying tax at Mr. I can’t figure out where I fit into his view of America. One brother had just proposed to his reluctant brother’s long-suffering fiancé. The mother had just demanded her husband terminate his affair, and he meekly agreed. In the movie Moonstruck, family and neighbors were pouring into the kitchen. The old man was sitting at the kitchen table, holding a hanky over his weeping eyes.

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