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What is it about making $250 K that would make me a focus of the President's enmity?

Asked by josie (30934points) December 7th, 2010

I do not make $250,000 a year.
But, I own a business, and I will keep trying and innovating and risk taking and hiring people with the expressed goal of making (at least) $250,000 per year.
But, apparently at that moment I will become a target of a constituency as represented by the current president and his cohorts.
I will not be regarded as a heroic guy who finally met his goals.
I will be regarded as low hanging fruit, somebody who does not deserve praise, but only deserves to be looted at the point of the gun of the institution that has a monopoly on violence.
As long as I make less than 250 K, I am OK.
But on the day I make $250,000.01, I become the greedy enemy of the state.
Today, the President acknowledged that he had to make a few compromises in order to advance an agenda that would benefit everybody.
But he was clearly pissed off, and he was pissed off at the people that I want to be someday.
What is it about $ 250 K that suddenly makes decent folks like me become the class enemy?

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