A message to those who think that someday they will benefit from GOP upper tax rates.

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61. I don't see where having things in common really matters

just because there is a strata of super rich above you, and then a much smaller strata of super-duper rich above them, does not make the rich any less rich, any more than the existence of people who are 7'2" makes a person who is 6'6" non-tall, or the existence of 1,000 pound people makes 300 pound people non-corpulent.

You make as much money in one year as I do in ten or twenty, and you think we have a lot in common? My total income from the last twenty five years 1985-2010 is $282,092, so I am not seeing much in common with somebody who makes that much, or more, in one year.

You say that you "know what you are talking about". Perhaps to imply that I don't.

Which would be true, I don't know what life is like on the other side of the median income. But I certainly know what the perspective is from the bottom. You sound like a person who is on the 90th floor of the Emprie State building, looking up and saying "I am a long way from the top, and look, there are even people flying way up in private jets."

But there are other people on the tenth floor and twentieth floor, lots and lots of such people, looking up at you and saying "wow, he/she is a long way up there."