Are America's Rich Falling Behind The Super-Rich? »
Posted By ind06 1 year, 1 month ago in Arts & EntertainmentTHE ONION NEWS NETWORK - Panelists discuss a new study showing the gap between the wealthy and the absurdly wealthy is widening, and how we can help the merely rich catch up
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ind061 year, 1 month ago
And don't forget the dessert gap, between the merely rich desserts, and the super-rich desserts. Mmmm, super-rich dessert. :)
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BronxBomber1 year, 1 month ago
Ahh the well to do nouveau-riche! The shunning, the gentrification,the arrogance, the provincial attitude, the abuse of power! etc. etc...
Well, I'd just like to show my gratuity from the heart of my bottom. Thank you Paris Hilton! =oP
;o)
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ETproductions1 year, 1 month ago
Ha! Funniest part is that George W. Bush, having come from a super rich background but himself being just rich, has taken this seriously and put tax laws in place to ACTUALLY help the rich catch up.
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gamahuche1 year, 1 month ago
>>Wait, is a billion enough for super rich status?
Nah its low-level these days.
Tawdry pocket-change.
Anyway get out of the way!!
I'm putting out for another category altogether - the surreally rich!
I'm not talking Dali he was rich enough and surreal enough but he wasn't SURREALLY RICH.
Surrealism demands surprise so its hush-hush - and also nudge-nudge-wink-wink.
Larger checks [c/o NS] guarantee bigger surprises!
Be astonished by the speed at which your money will vanish!
MUCH more will be needed and the surprises will only get more spectacular..
Virtual thank you notes are being created right now by my other hand..
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ZippySpincycle1 year, 1 month ago
And like so many stories from the Onion, there actually is a nugget of truth in this: Mere millionaires actually *do* worry about keeping up with the obscenely wealthy (among other things, it's considered cheap and tacky to buy your girlfriend a mere $80,000 Mercedes, and having only a 200-foot yacht will get you laughed out of some ports). Wall Street Journal reporter Robert Frank writes about some of this in _Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich_ (Crown, 2007). http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-9...
And as we know, only the little people pay taxes.
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 1 month ago
and what of those poor forgotten 'slightly well-off'?
How do you think they feel, watching their neighbors in their new Jags and Lexusus-uh, Lexi, then having to climb into their second owner Mercedesees-uh, Mercedi?
pitiful. help the slighly well-off become the rich God always meant them to be. Give of your tax coffers people. the mercedes you save may be your own [third owner mercedi, mmmmm]
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 1 month ago
ah the urban legend of the mercedes pulling up in front of the Dept. of Human Services would finally come true...
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B737Tech1 year, 1 month ago
How about some help for the retired people of this country whose incomes are rapidly shrinking due corporate greed??
The Medicare, supplimental health & Medicare Part D policies are ridculously expensive plus the cost of prescriptions with all that.
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MajJohn1 year, 1 month ago
Now this is something that really has me worried!! My yacht is only worth 1800 C, uh, that's not thousand, it's cents.
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