Some other income data for historical perspective, again CBO
Isaac Send a noteboard - 14/04/2011 07:45:13 PM
This one's data, adjusted to 2007, showing the household incomes broken up into fifths, but again also with top 10%, 5%, and 1%, these are quintiles, feel free to name 'poor', 'working poor', middle, etc but I'm sticking with quintile - and goes from '79 to '07, I'm just sort of guessing arguments will be revolving around everyone's take on figures for next month or so I'm just putting these out without commentary or analysis, two quick obvious points, this is income per household adjusted for inflation, not a measure of wealth or the prosperity of those household, [edit: they actually do have some adjustments for household size, explained on sheet]
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This message last edited by Isaac on 14/04/2011 at 07:47:53 PM
How can anyone seriously support Obama's budget proposals?
- 14/04/2011 02:49:30 PM
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I agree with your overall point but I do question one of your facts
- 14/04/2011 03:25:25 PM
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Using IRS data for 2008: (most recent year for which data is available)
- 14/04/2011 03:45:20 PM
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You didn't interpret the spreadsheet correctly. I'm positive of that.
- 14/04/2011 06:08:39 PM
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I'm gonna have to jump on board the wagon with that being a bad figure, got some others
- 14/04/2011 07:33:14 PM
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Some other income data for historical perspective, again CBO
- 14/04/2011 07:45:13 PM
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Data: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/08in31mt.xls *NM*
- 14/04/2011 08:32:42 PM
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That's a breakdown of who modifies their returns and how it affects revenue.
- 14/04/2011 09:15:21 PM
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I believe you are questioning one of my definitions, not one of my facts.
- 14/04/2011 04:36:35 PM
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No matter how you define it I think it would be hard to call the top 5% middle class
- 14/04/2011 05:03:33 PM
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What a load of crap!
- 14/04/2011 03:49:29 PM
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Yes, your response is a load of crap.
- 14/04/2011 04:55:20 PM
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Re: Yes, your response is a load of crap.
- 14/04/2011 05:13:14 PM
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This is our first war without a tax increase.
- 14/04/2011 06:05:43 PM
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Er, check facts
- 14/04/2011 05:04:02 PM
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Yeah, lets fact check
- 14/04/2011 05:43:34 PM
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You understand you're actually supposed to cite data for a fact check right?
- 14/04/2011 06:38:22 PM
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I'm not sure thats entirely right
- 14/04/2011 05:51:18 PM
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What about the farm subsidies and the military?
- 15/04/2011 04:54:54 PM
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Cutting the military isn't enough
- 16/04/2011 04:27:11 AM
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Defense is 60% of the discretionary budget as well, so it's more like 26% overall. Just sayin'. *NM*
- 16/04/2011 04:53:30 AM
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