Anonymous income poll

[one love]

Somehow this conversation jumped from Upper part of middle class to filthy rich.

Yes I know nowhere in the US is $75,000 a year going to mean rich, but in most places it is on the upper side of the middle class spectrum.

ummm this is what i have been saying that 75k is not rich

[one love]

I think the more you make - the more you spend - higher bills and so forth. So even the ones who live in the bigger house with the bigger car do not consider themselves rich, but are also trying to make ends meet.

very good thought.

[Kevin]

pastorbill i understand what you are saying but no where in the u.s. is 75 rich and wealthy. you cant buy a mansion and a benz and never lack. You will not have 900k in the bank etc that is my point it is not rich. By all standards this is fact, you may feel rich is something different but by all meaning of being financially wealthy 75k is not it.
your not poor by any means but with a family and being a household income you can still struggle in many states.

Try telling the people in Appalachia that.


TW

with all due respect i would tell anyone in america that. I dont know anywhere you could be wealthy and rich off of this income. if you could e very lawyer, doctor, physician assistant, some nurses, some firemen are rich and wealthy. It just is not the case. Wealthy ....nevermind i guess your thought of rich is different then most. i respect that
75k times 4 is at most 300k home is that a mansion

What exactly is a mansion? Cause I've got news for you living here with Kalei and I being two of the three in that bottom bracket. I'd love to be making $75,000. Right now if I could afford a two bedroom/one bath house, that would be a mansion to me.

Who said you have to have a Mercedes and a mansion to be rich anyway? If you have that money and choose to put yourself in unnecessary debt, that's not my fault.

Oh, and by the way I've got a very good paying job for this area. Many people in this country are actually hurting. I consider myself quite blessed. I know lots of people who don't have it as good as I do, but then... they can't afford internet.

[one love]

pastorbill i understand what you are saying but no where in the u.s. is 75 rich and wealthy. you cant buy a mansion and a benz and never lack. You will not have 900k in the bank etc that is my point it is not rich. By all standards this is fact, you may feel rich is something different but by all meaning of being financially wealthy 75k is not it.
your not poor by any means but with a family and being a household income you can still struggle in many states.

Try telling the people in Appalachia that.


TW

with all due respect i would tell anyone in america that. I dont know anywhere you could be wealthy and rich off of this income. if you could e very lawyer, doctor, physician assistant, some nurses, some firemen are rich and wealthy. It just is not the case. Wealthy ....nevermind i guess your thought of rich is different then most. i respect that
75k times 4 is at most 300k home is that a mansion

What exactly is a mansion? Cause I've got news for you living here with Kalei and I being two of the three in that bottom bracket. I'd love to be making $75,000. Right now if I could afford a two bedroom/one bath house, that would be a mansion to me.

Who said you have to have a Mercedes and a mansion to be rich anyway? If you have that money and choose to put yourself in unnecessary debt, that's not my fault.

Oh, and by the way I've got a very good paying job for this area. Many people in this country are actually hurting. I consider myself quite blessed. I know lots of people who don't have it as good as I do, but then... they can't afford internet.

PLease dont misunderstand at all. I am speaking of what the economist and people think wealthy and rich are in regards to finances alone. I am richly blessed to be saved and im rich for having such a good family, but none of that was part of this discussion. this was stemmed from another thread relative to the governments taxing those of 75k and higher as if they are wealthy and rich.

[jinjer]

taxing ..... as if they are wealthy and rich.

Can you elaborate on this statement?

Jinjer

[one love]

taxing ..... as if they are wealthy and rich.

Can you elaborate on this statement?

Jinjer

ok, when liberals say "tax cut for the rich" they really are putting people who make 75k and more in that category they just dont say that. They want people to percieve that it is only the wealthiest of wealthy they want to tax, it simply is not true. If either hilary or obama wins and the bush tax cuts are not final and they do as they want to do we will be taxed heavily and it will not be the wealthiest either it would be the middle class that are as i said "a cop and a nurse" that will also be effected.
Point being 75k is not rich as percieved.

this all stemmed from the "economic stimulis plan thread. hope that helps

[jinjer]

Gotcha!! I just wanted make sure we were on the same page.

Jinjer