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- From: niebuhr@bnlux1.bnl.gov (david niebuhr)
- Subject: Re: $$$ for middle class
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.120928.3195@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
- Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
- References: <brpaav.gal@wang.com> <CARL.92Jul21074335@atlantis.Cayman.COM>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:09:28 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- In article <CARL.92Jul21074335@atlantis.Cayman.COM> carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl) writes:
- >
- >>Middle class: single return under $110K
- >> joint return under $150K
- >
- >>Any opinions?
- >
- >Way too high. A month or two ago there was a histogram of salary
- >ranges throughout the country (i.e. it included a LARGE sample).
- >
- >I'd say the "middle class" would probably be the middle "third" of the
- >salary sample which would make the range from somewhere in the mid 20s
- >up to the 80's (which I had saved that article now). Yea, I know,
- >that's a large range, but in some parts of the county you can live on
- >20k *almost* as good as you can on 80k in the expensive areas (perhaps
- >(?) better in some cases).
- >
-
- It seems that there are a lot of variables left out in determining
- just what constitutes the middle class salary range. The most damaging
- one is taxes, and not just the income taxes.
-
- Suffolk County (Long Island) New York, is going to have an 8 1/2% sales
- tax starting Sept. 1, 1992. Property taxes are confiscatory (mine are
- above 3K for a house on a 100x117 piece of land. Some people are paying
- over 6K in other places on the Island.
-
- Middle class is an over-worked term that went out the window with the
- Reagan/Bush presidencies. I used to be solidly in the middle class,
- but after these two guys finished wrecking the economy, I'm not
- anymore.
-
- Dave
-
- Dave Niebuhr Internet: niebuhr@bnl.gov / Bitnet: niebuhr@bnl
- Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 (516)-282-3093
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- Dave Niebuhr Internet: niebuhr@bnl.gov / Bitnet: niebuhr@bnl
- Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 (516)-282-3093
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