This graphic infuriates me to no end. I feel it's ok for me to say that in my field, I'm considered a typical success story. I make good money, I have a lot of autonomy, respect, responsibility, and a solid list of achievements. Yet my wife and I are both pushing 40, our combined income is barely $100K, and our retirement savings is about $20K. We have zero investment income, and we only ever take the standard deductions (every year I do the math, and the standard deduction turns out to be more than the itemized deduction). So if a bunch of people making over $200K face tax increases that only amount to roughly 1-2% of their gross income, fuck them, they can pay up!!
I am livid about this. What context was this printed in the WSJ? What the hell is happening here? Of all of the people who should know about monetary dynamics, you'd think these people would have their finger on the pulse. Over 200K is in the top one percent of Americans. Are you shitting me? 650K? Boo fucking hoo. Good god.
Yeah, this is pretty weak:
I think syncretic tagged this appropriately. It's hard to believe this isn't parody.
I tagged it that, but I didn't come up with it. As far as I can tell, thenewgreen did months ago. I've seen posts from time to time with that tag, and I think it fits so perfectly some places.
I see what happened, I was riffing on this post by cliffelam. He started posting anything that was so ridiculous that it seemed like parody under #theonion and I mistakenly started #nottheonion, inspired by his tag.
The most insidious thing about this is that the rank and file republican voter makes nowhere near these numbers either, but somehow still thinks that the WSJ is objective and that the Republican party has their best interests at heart. The irony that is so glaring and laughable to us barely pierces the bubble they live in.
There's no competing with unintentional self-parody.