You are a loser by the Wall Street Journal standards

Yes, this graphic is frickin‘ REAL. It is from the January 4^th Wall Street Journal.

Look at the faces of these poor suffering Americans.  I did and felt some empathy (especially for the poor single mom with two sad-looking kids) until I saw their income.  Do YOU know any young single-moms with two kids making $230,000 (with $25,000 in investment income)?  What about a family of four scraping by on just $650,000 ($180,000 from investment income)?  How come none of them are smiling?  Would you smile with their incomes?  Would you even be willing to pay higher taxes for that privilege?   I would!!

The median household in America is a bit less than $53,000.  This is just how out of touch Wall Street is with America.  Sad!

--Trakker

 

Comments

[Dan D. Doty]

But isn't Wall Street leveling taxes.

[horsec]

In the comments, Daniel Kong Wrote:

4, 4, 0, 12percent increase.

Oh no... these people making above 100k a year will have to pay more... Oh noes.

But hey thats the average for the country right? Everyone's going to have to pay mo-

Oh.... Oh wait...

Median income of a householder female, 2 children, no husband is....
33,637

Median income of a househoulder female no children no husband is....
25,492
married couple with children:
$74,130
And retired couple
33,118

And all from the census from 2011

Dear WSJ, Have you lost all sense of touch with reality?

I'd certainly like to live in a world where the majority of people make that kind of money. But we dont live in that world.