Friday, September 30, 2011

TWO AMERICAS

Republican Congressman John Fleming of Louisiana, according to the Wall Street Journal, has a gross income of $6.3 million. Here he is in on MSNBC to complain about the unfairness of tax increases on the rich.

"The amount that I have to invest in my business and feed my family is more like $600,000 of that $6.3 million. So by the time I feed my family I have, maybe, $400,000 left over to invest in new locations, upgrade my locations, buy more equipment."

That's $200,000 to feed his family? We really are living in two Americas, and I'm not living in his.

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