Politics Poll: Middle Class

[barfo]

There will be of course lots of talk about the 'middle class' in the tax cut debate.

I see in the Washington post a little graphic about what the 'middle class' is - 30th to 80th income percentile, for Multnomah County, that's $32k-108k household income (pretty much identical to the US as a whole).

So, how many of us are middle class? Poll above.

I'm guessing that we as a group will be skewed more towards above-middle, because we have so much time to waste on silly polls like this. But maybe I'm wrong...

barfo

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I self-identify as homeless.

*Posted via Obamaphone*

 

[barfo]

I self-identify as homeless.

*Posted via Obamaphone*

Failure to read question. You can have a high income and still be homeless.

barfo

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Middle class should be $100k-250k. I don't know how you can live on anything less to be honest.

 

[barfo]

Middle class should be $100k-250k. I don't know how you can live on anything less to be honest.

Sounds like someone needs to spend some time with the bums getting to know their folkways.

barfo

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Sounds like someone needs to spend some time with the bums getting to know their folkways.

barfo

Did you know a burrito at Chipotle is like $14 bucks now?

 

[dviss1]

Did you know a burrito at Chipotle is like $14 bucks now?

You still eat at that E-Coli factory?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

You still eat at that E-Coli factory?

I live in LA, its the only decent place with authentic Mexican food.

 

[dviss1]

I live in LA, its the only decent place with authentic Mexican food.

I had some GREAT Mexican in Albuquerque NM but yeah, last time I had some really good mexican it was in Pasadena CA.

Nothing like fresh, warm, homemade, churros...

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I had some GREAT Mexican in Albuquerque NM but yeah, last time I had some really good mexican it was in Pasadena CA.

Nothing like fresh, warm, homemade, churros...

Churros are Spanish bro. You ask for churros at a mexican restaurant in LA, you're likely to get shanked.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

And in New Mexico, you probably had New Mexican food, not Mexican food.

 

[riverman]

I live in LA, its the only decent place with authentic Mexican food.

San Diego is even better in my view...I think it's the best in the country

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Honestly, Mexican food is all we can eat nowadays, too expensive to eat white people food, especially if u are poor like me.

 

[dviss1]

And in New Mexico, you probably had New Mexican food, not Mexican food.

Corny ass!!

 

[dviss1]

Honestly, Mexican food is all we can eat nowadays, too expensive to eat white people food, especially if u are poor like me.

"The chicken and giblets are over there! You must be lost..."

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Corny ass!!

New Mexican Food is fucking great! Sopapillas are the bomb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexican_cuisine

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Middle class should be $100k-250k. I don't know how you can live on anything less to be honest.

Step one: Don't live in LA.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Step one: Don't live in LA.

Then u not living, bro.

 

[Denny Crane]

Most people above $100K consider themselves middle class.

FWIW

In Sillicon Valley, people above $200K are scraping by.

 

[MarAzul]

Middle class should be $100k-250k. I don't know how you can live on anything less to be honest.

I do my best, stretching that SS Check.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I have a graduate degree in the sciences, I work in a field related to my degree. My wife is a medical professional and we make more than the supposed cut for middle class, but we live in Multnomah county and it feels like we are scraping by much of the time.

I don't really know what these arbitrary categories based on raw income mean anymore.

 

[Denny Crane]

I don't really know what these arbitrary categories based on raw income mean anymore.

Middle class is the class between the lower class and the upper class.

Hope that helps

 

[MARIS61]

It is quite possible to receive over $1,000,000 income value per year solely from public assistance. More if you're not a Caucasian male and even more if you are not a US citizen.

We talking gross, net, after-tax, pre-tax, earned vs trust-fund, under the table, over the table, foreign donations to the MARIS61 FOUNDATION...?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I do my best, stretching that SS Check.

You're in the SS? :MARIS61:

 

[Shaboid]

I can't wait until HCP brags about how much he makes and how it puts him in the "Upper Class".

 

[MARIS61]

I can't wait until HCP brags about how much he makes and how it puts him in the "Upper Class".

I hear he is literally raking it in.

 

[barfo]

It is quite possible to receive over $1,000,000 income value per year solely from public assistance.

I certainly am not skeptical of any claim you might make, you always stick to the facts and avoid hyperbole - but exactly how is that possible? I'd like to know the programs and the payout amounts, and the family size that creates a $1M overall income from public assistance. I look forward to the data.

barfo

 

[MARIS61]

I certainly am not skeptical of any claim you might make, you always stick to the facts and avoid hyperbole - but exactly how is that possible? I'd like to know the programs and the payout amounts, and the family size that creates a $1M overall income from public assistance. I look forward to the data.

barfo

It varies from state to state.

California has and will continue to divert limitless taxpayer funds from other programs simply to defend illegal aliens against deportation.

Oregon has no limit on medical expenses covered by taxpayers for illegal aliens. None at all.

Not to mention Obamacare covers the entire $20,000+ per year premiums for anyone who refuses to work for a living.

 

[santeesioux]

You'd be doing very well for yourself down here at even the middle class option.

 

[barfo]

You'd be doing very well for yourself down here at even the middle class option.

Klamath County the middle class range is $25-$80k. Not sure if that's where you are or not though.

barfo