A real belly laugh courtesy of the WSJ

[Bonobo]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323689604578220132665726040.html

This is supposed to be about how your taxes may change from last year to this year.

LOVE those incomes!!!

[littlemissmartypants]

1. Yep...

the single mother income is a real knee slapper. WTF???

[daleanime]

9. Really!

Her "investment income" alone is more then I made this year.

[HiPointDem]

2. pretty clear what the wsj's demographic is...

hey plebs, they're not talking to *you*....

[okaawhatever]

3. Love the way they slip in the 180k in investment income on the last couple. Propoganda much? n/t

[PoliticAverse]

4. Also discussed in this DU thread here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251275127

[JohnnyRingo]

5. I feel sorry for that couple that earns $650k.

They've probably just barely been able to make ends meet, and now they'll pay an extra $21,000.

They'll probably have to put off that new BMW until next year.

[Fumesucker]

6. A single mom with $35,000 in investment income

[aandegoons]

7. Even the couple with no increase in tax is sad.

Wow I am glad I don't make that much.

[woodsprite]

8. Wow! I think hubby and I are doing very well

And together, we're more than 100k less than the single person.
I'll have to show him what we're missing.

[sendero]

10. Way to represent...

.. the broader truth. What are we looking at here, the top 2%? Cry me a river.

[SWTORFanatic]

11. Those are like real incomes if you remove one of the zeroes

[trumad]

13. LOL

No one has mentioned the poor sad concerned looks on these poor poor people...

[Danascot]

23. No doubt the WSJ is covertly sending the message

that money can't buy happiness.

[krispos42]

12. And to the movers and shakers that read the WSJ...

...these are poor people.

[xchrom]

14. they all look so ..stressed...and put upon. nt

[bulloney]

15. Damn that Obama! Oppressing people barely making 6 figures with his higher taxes!

Wow! Just wow! Is there any doubt on how out of touch the media gerbils are?

[demwing]

20. + 100% for "media gerbils"

[KansDem]

26. Agreed!

"Media gerbils"

Kinda rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

[MadrasT]

16. Oh, those poor, struggling people

How will they ever survive?

[customerserviceguy]

21. Especially those sad-eyed starving waifs

With all that those people have going for them, why are they so flippin' down in the mouth?

[GTurck]

17. Who are these....

people? It seems the WSJ thinks these are "average" Americans in the middle class.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

18. WTF

Really, words elude me

[Buns_of_Fire]

19. Buffy and I were discussing this the other day.

Should we terminate the nanny, the maid, one of the groundskeepers, or the chef?

We decided the chef had to go. The Baked Alaska was simply NOT up to our standards last week.

*sigh* If only "you people" knew the travails we live through.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

22. looks like they all sure do RESENT that tax-raiser Obama....

They must be Ayn Randians, with incomes and lemon-sucking faces like that.

Geez...I work at a University. I've never met someone with an income like those. Well, maybe the top admins.....


JeezusHChrist this is a load.

[themidniteskulker]

24. Let's not lose sight of the perspective of this article

It was, after all, a product of the highly-respected Wall Street Journal, now under control of the noted truth-teller and self-improvement guru Rufus Murdoch, who has done so much to raise the standard of living and of moral rectitude in the UK. Of which only he, by his shining example, is capable. I'm sure we all wish to emulate this towering figure's selfless life mission. Don't we?

[KansDem]

28. "Rufus Murdoch" and "media gerbils" in one thread!

I'm wide awake now and

Welcome to DU!

[Baitball Blogger]

25. We have found the disconnect!

They don't realize the number of people in Orlando who have to make it on less than $30,000 a year! What fucking fuckheads! I hope the other newspapers shame them by dragging this poorly researched piece across the nation!

[trumad]

27. LOL---the single parent--when all is said and done..

living off 150,000 per year--- add her errr investments--- about 185,000 per year.

Oh the pain--- I love how sad they look....

[liberal N proud]

29. Are their any real people in that example?

[demwing]

30. Just us, and as with all else in their world

We are allowed to watch, but not to play the game.

[jpljr77]

31. The real takeaway from the article (and an even better image):

This article lays out all of the action in the $250,000 - $400,000 action in the "fiscal cliff" deal. While the media and everyone on both polar extremes focused on the top tax rate threshold number ($250k vs. $400k), there were plenty of deductions cut and other taxes levied on incomes above $250k at the end of the day.

Here is the other image from that article:



In case you're wondering, the 3.8% surtax on investment income is a provision of the Affordable Care Act that is going into effect this year.

[bobclark86]

32. If I made 230,000 a year...

I would be friggin' psyched to pay $64,000 a year.

Why? Because I'd have a quarter of a million dollars to begin with! Where I come from, that would buy my entire block and get me out of my $450 1992 Mercury Grand Marquis. I might even go for a 2010 Grand Marquis then!

[LisaLynne]

33. If I were going to make a joke graphic to mock ...

the 1%-ers and the WSJ, I would make this graphic, only I would have toned it down a bit.

[bigapple1963]

34. actually

this are typical salary numbers working in NYC. Anyone working in finance, law, medicine, etc. for at least 10 years can easily clear these numbers.

Investment income could be too optimistic given where interest rates are.

[Bonobo]

36. Would you have to have passable grammar to get that kind of salary? nt

[bigapple1963]

37. hm...

should I go through every single one of your posts to see whether you have ever made a grammatical or typographical error in the past?

[sadbear]

35. Pity them, dammit!!!!

Pity them!!!!!!