That's so depressing. I'm a college grad with an AAS, AA, and a BA and I can't even break the $30K mark. :*(<br>~L<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List
</b> <<a href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">John, you ran this twice. I'm taking that as license to offer a different
<br>brand of flak:<br><br>On Tuesday morning, the second stop on my route, a man who retired from<br>work at an Evinrude plant brought his disabled son out to the bus. I<br>noticed his yard sign, and made a remark about the election. He said
<br>"Yeah, a guy like you, driving this bus, how could you afford to be a<br>Republican?" I couldn't agree more.<br><br>TIME magazine recently ran a special report on "America at 300 million"<br>which included a page on "What We Earn."
<br><br>How much time at work does it take to make $1000?<br><br>Howard Stern 24 seconds<br>Dr. Phil 42 seconds<br>Wolfgang Puck 7 minutes, 30 seconds
<br>Police officer 43 hours<br>Farmer 57 hours<br>Janitor 103 hours<br><br>I skipped some in betweens.<br><br>50% of us have income less than $30,000, while
2.3 million make between<br>$200,000 and $500,000, and 9,677 tax returns show income of more than $10<br>million.<br><br>In no sense whatsoever are these larger amounts "earned" by "hard work."<br>That may be true (sometimes) of the difference between $15,000 and
<br>$100,000, but not between $50,000 and $10 million.<br><br>Accordingly, in the spirit of my favorite Democrat, the late great<br>senator from Louisiana, Huey Pierce Long, I have no problem whatsoever<br>with putting a huge tax burden on incomes over $200,000, and taking half
<br>of all income over $1 million, to make sure that, e.g. everyone has<br>affordable health insurance. (By everyone, I mean, including proprietors<br>of small businesses who eke out just enough to support their families,
<br>not just wage employees).<br><br>REAL tax reform would be to make the first $20,000 tax exempt for<br>individuals, $50,000 for families, and no, same-sex couples don't get to<br>file joint returns. Also, I've always thought janitors and garbage
<br>collectors should be paid two or three times the legal minimum wage, and<br>allowed to work only 25-30 hours a week, as they do necessary but<br>undesirable work. People who find their work stimulating and inspiring<br>
should be content to work for a little less.<br><br>The ideological demons who run the Republican Party have a lot of people<br>making $30,000 a year scared to death that half their income will be<br>seized to pay welfare checks, when the real sharing of wealth to those
<br>who did not work for it is at the other end of the income scale.<br><br>I am not a member of the Democratic Party because they don't have the<br>spine to stand up and say this straight out. But I generally vote for<br>
them, because at least they make a half-hearted effort to raise the legal<br>minimum wage to maybe 75% of what it should be.<br><br>Siarlys<br>_______________________________________________<br>GCFL-discuss mailing list<br>
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