Do you consider?

Question

Do you consider someone who makes 84K a year poor?

I never did, thanks to the Dems for clearing that up!

Answer 1

not at all.

Answer 2

Is that before or after taxes and with how many children. The average income in the US is $44,000, with 1/2 of taxpayers making $25,000 or less. Only 9.7 million earn between $100 and $200,000 a year out of 132 MILLION taxpayers!

And as you know, or not, most companies and even states are asking their employers for givebacks and insurance is the #1 giveback they are asking for.

I am sure there are other criteria for qualification that is left out of the figure you use!

Try living in New York with 3 kids and tell me if you think you are poor?

"But in the end, the Democrats had weapons that were just too powerful -- a promise to insure 5 million more children who otherwise would have no access to health care, adding to the 6 million children already covered -- and the backing of Republican and Democratic governors, the American Medical Association, AARP, the March of Dimes, the Catholic Health Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and even cyclist Lance Armstrong. And the prospects are good in the Senate, where a key Republican, Orrin G. Hatch (Utah), said, "It's difficult for me to understand how anyone wouldn't want to do this."

As I thought, you misrepresent the bill!

"The Bush administration says the legislation could qualify some New York families of four making about $83,000 a year, or four times the poverty level. Such a scenario is unlikely, the bill's proponents say, because it would require waivers the administration has rejected". Get that: SOME NY FAMILIES WITH WAIVERS??

Do you consider those that actually qualify would be $34,340 for a family of three, or $41,300 for a family of four! Do you think a family of 3 earning $34,000 rich?

I quess you would rather approve anther $200 Billion in deficit so we can kill a few thousand more people? In the children's bill it is NOT deficit spending!!

Answer 3

I use to make a tiny bit less than that and definately did not consider myself poor at the time. In fact Id just about kill for those days now-enough for all my bills, a good savings, investments, charity, and some good old fashioned fun (I havent been to a strip club in over a year!)
Now I make significantly less than that and figure Im resting uncomfortably on the poverty line, but Im still not poor.

Not sure where they get those numbers.

Answer 4

According to new American Busines Memo, Anyone in America who don't have $100,000.00 cash ready for any kind of business investment is now considered poor. I don't know if this if final but I'm struggling working out hard to earn my first million dollars on or before 2010. Try to open my website if you want to go along with me. "www.MyMplus.com/pcundag"

Answer 5

Dollars or pound sterling! I earn 40k sterling a year. Thats near 84K dollars. And I'm still poor. We get our *** taxed off!

Answer 6

I agree with MiXzo, it depends where you live; Whats it matter anyhow, next generation if we keep going the way we are, there will be only two classes, rich and poor, no more middle class......

Answer 7

I can see your point. However, $84K is about $50K post tax.

Answer 8

I am poor. But I am still happier than a pig in shiite.

Answer 9

Depends on where they live? Say, downtown Manhattan, yes they're poor. Say, In the middle of Iowa, no they're rich. LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION.

Answer 10

Once again the dems prove how idiotic they are.



How fitting they are represented by a jackass

Answer 11

I would consider that upper middle class where I live.