# Obama: Let's end the Bush tax cuts

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**Created:** [April 13, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-lets-end-the-bush-tax-cuts/578291 "2011-04-13T22:09:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-lets-end-the-bush-tax-cuts/578291/46 "2011-04-14T15:47:27Z")

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> [@xtisme](#):
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> $250,000 per year might sound like a lot to some people, but it’s hardly ‘rich’. To me, you don’t start dropping the quotes until you are talking millions or tens of millions per year, with assets to match. yMMV of course.
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> -XT

A starting teacher’s salary here is $34k. I’m happy to pay $50k in taxes for a $250,000/yr income.

It is a lot to \*most people \*because the less than 250k/year folk make is 98%$ of America. Middle and upper class distinctions are all kind of relative, though I wouldn’t call myself “rich” if I made 250k. I’d just have better health care, a nicer house, a nicer car, a better education and nicer shoes.

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