Politics Poll: Middle Class

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What's your economic status?

  1. Below middle class (<$32K)

    7 vote(s)
    22.6%

  2. Middle class ($32-108K)

    13 vote(s)
    41.9%

  3. Above middle class (>$108k)

    11 vote(s)
    35.5%
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  1. barfo

    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    There will be of course lots of talk about the 'middle class' in the tax cut debate.

    I see in the Washington post a little graphic about what the 'middle class' is - 30th to 80th income percentile, for Multnomah County, that's $32k-108k household income (pretty much identical to the US as a whole).

    So, how many of us are middle class? Poll above.

    I'm guessing that we as a group will be skewed more towards above-middle, because we have so much time to waste on silly polls like this. But maybe I'm wrong...

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    I self-identify as homeless.

    *Posted via Obamaphone*
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Failure to read question. You can have a high income and still be homeless.

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    Middle class should be $100k-250k. I don't know how you can live on anything less to be honest.
     
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    Sounds like someone needs to spend some time with the bums getting to know their folkways.

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    Did you know a burrito at Chipotle is like $14 bucks now?
     
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    You still eat at that E-Coli factory?
     
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    I live in LA, its the only decent place with authentic Mexican food.
     
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    I had some GREAT Mexican in Albuquerque NM but yeah, last time I had some really good mexican it was in Pasadena CA.

    Nothing like fresh, warm, homemade, churros...

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    Churros are Spanish bro. You ask for churros at a mexican restaurant in LA, you're likely to get shanked.
     
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    And in New Mexico, you probably had New Mexican food, not Mexican food.
     
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    San Diego is even better in my view...I think it's the best in the country
     
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    Honestly, Mexican food is all we can eat nowadays, too expensive to eat white people food, especially if u are poor like me.
     
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    Corny ass!!

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    "The chicken and giblets are over there! You must be lost..."

     
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    Then u not living, bro.
     
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    Most people above $100K consider themselves middle class.

    FWIW

    In Sillicon Valley, people above $200K are scraping by.
     
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