Rich fatcat professors
At Saturday's presidential debate at St. Anselm College, ABC moderator Charlie Gibson quizzed Hillary Clinton on whether she would raise taxes on wealthy American families.
CLINTON: One of the problems with George Bush's tax policy has been the way he has tilted it for the wealthy and the well-connected.According to U.S. Census data, only 3.4 percent of U.S. households have an income of $200,000 or more. And the American Association of University Professors says that a full professor at St. Anselm in has an average salary of $77,400 while assistant professors earn $49,600.
GIBSON: If you take a family of two professors, here at Saint Anselm, they're going to be in the $200,000 category that you're talking about lifting the taxes on.
AUDIENCE: (LAUGHTER)
GIBSON: And...
AUDIENCE: (LAUGHTER)
EDWARDS: Oh, I don't think they agree with you.
OBAMA: I'm not sure that that
CLINTON: That may be NYU, Charlie. I don't think it's St. Anselm.
GIBSON: Two public school teachers in New York?
7 comments:
yes it shows that gibson as much as the candidates
has been living in his ultra-high income bubble for a long time.
indeed gibson was off the mark on much
of the democratic part of the debate.
also even in new york city most public school teachers make less than 60000
a year---and for most places in the us far less.
edwards ,mr.-i--worked-in-a-steel-mill before-i -got- %400- haircuts, should have been all over gibson for that ignorant remark.
....how soon they forget
How much does Charlie Gibson's haircut cost?
Wow, baby goes with bathwater, huh? Focusing on the exact number instead of the point, that that kind of populist "soak the rich" claptrap plays on peoples' misconceptions of where they are in terms of income tiers. There was a good AskMe thread about it recently.
It's the easiest, cheapest sort of position. No one can argue against it, so no one can ask questions about the affect on the economy of soaking the rich. But keep hoping for free checks off the backs of those damned fat cats on the Left Coast, Grandpa Simpson
Yerfatma must be among the 3.4% of the country that earns over $200,000.
Yes, more ad hominem and less reasoned debate. Do you want to know when I stopped beating my wife as well, Anonymous Hero?
You stopped? I'd like to see some proof of that.
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