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How many 1%'ers we got here?

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dank69 said:
Your problem is that you look at taxes the wrong way. If all taxes were reduced to 0 tomorrow, the average salary for your job would plummet to your take home pay in a relatively short time frame. That is the amount you are willing to accept for your job. Businesses aren't going to continue to pay more for your skills than they need to.

Once you integrate this information you will realize that all taxes are essentially levied upon businesses, and that all the fighting against taxation is actually people fighting against their own self-interest.
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I think you've made that argument before, and it's an incredibly stupid one. Companies don't hire based on an employees net income. They care about their own costs.
 
When you hear references to the 1% elite, it's not people making a few multiples of six figure incomes. That is chicken scratch to what the 1% really is (the 1% of that 1%) You're talking less than a 1000 people who have each have fortunes measured in the billions. The people making money off the backs of everyone else, including the six figure income worker bees.
 
BoberFett said:
I think you've made that argument before, and it's an incredibly stupid one. Companies don't hire based on an employees net income. They care about their own costs.
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They care about maximizing profit. That means they want to pay you as little as possible. Plenty of people are willing to do your job for the same take home pay you receive now, including yourself (assuming you even have a job.)
 
Whoa, we are half way there (to 1% household income in Cali). Whoa, we are living on a (first world problem) prayer. 🙂
 
Over halfway there....

Still, don't feel wealthy by any stretch just in a position where we can save more money than we could a few years ago and eat out more often.
 
dank69 said:
No, I mean like the best of the best. The most civilized place on earth. Fabulously wealthy and progressive without the filth of NY or the vapidity of CA.

And yes, close to the beach. 😀
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Bah... Connecticut sucks. The taxes are too damn high, the gun laws are stupid, and the cities are filled with abandoned factory buildings.

If it wasn't for all of the old rich people to sponge off of, most of the state would look like Detroit.
 
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