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Bring out the tiniest of violins. Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) is a victim of class warfare because, after taxes, he only has $400K left over to feed his family. Whoops! He’s even landing on a softer pile of cash – the $400K is AFTER he’s fed his kids.
OK, even if his family is Duggar-sized, I think he could get by on less than $400K. Even adjusted for inflation, all 14 of my maternal grandparents’ kids were fed on a lot less during The Great Depression. (My mom is third from the right in the back row.)
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Actually $400,000 is not what he has to feed his family, he says it is what is left after his family has been fed.
Well, then, he must party too hard with the $400K.
I was going to point that out, too, Laura Lee, though the overall impression does not change much with that correction. He implies that he used about $200,000 to feed his family, still more than many families can ever dream of for one year! And still, there is that comfy $400,000 cushion left…
I could cook my best truffle-infused French cuisine (with occasional forays into caviar and bird’s-nest soup) for my family for a hell of a lot less than $200k per year. Hell, I could feed my family luxuriously as part of a less-than-$200k-per-year total budget.
Lol, the man claims that he shouldn’t have to pay higher taxes because he uses his profits to “create jobs”…
…and what’s his business? A string of Subway and UPS packaging stores, two businesses that notoriously pay crap wages and operate on a shoestring staff of “deliberately just shy of full-time so we don’t have to provide any benefits” employees (and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen only a single person on the clock at Subway and UPS stores).
Furthermore, if you do the math and subtract rent, food, and equipment from the 5.7 million, his 500 employees are earning maybe around $6,000 to $7,000 a year (if even that much)… well below the poverty line meaning many are probably on some sort of government assistance or another to make up the difference between what he is paying them and what they need to survive.
The man is not “creating jobs,” he’s creating his own personal wealth on the backs of a government subsidized workforce…