Schumer's Faulty Premise
Nation Editor-in-Chief in her review of Senator Schumer's new book writes, "in his new book, Positively American: Winning Back the American Middle Class One Family at a Time, Senator Charles Schumer reveals the imaginary constituents that have long informed his political career: Joe and Eileen Bailey. The Baileys live in a suburb of Long Island with their three kids, they both work, and they earn about $75,000 annually."
The problem with his imaginary constituents is the problem with Democratic tax policy in general. It would be hard to imagine living in Nassau County a middle class existence with three children on a household income of $75,000 a year, where the price of an average home is $586,401.
Democrats typically define anyone who makes over $100,000 as wealthy (remember the tax cuts for the rich rhetoric) never really taking into account cost-of-living adjustments. As someone who lives in a modest but very pricey house in the expensive Park Slope section of Brooklyn, Senator Schumer of all people should know better.
The problem with his imaginary constituents is the problem with Democratic tax policy in general. It would be hard to imagine living in Nassau County a middle class existence with three children on a household income of $75,000 a year, where the price of an average home is $586,401.
Democrats typically define anyone who makes over $100,000 as wealthy (remember the tax cuts for the rich rhetoric) never really taking into account cost-of-living adjustments. As someone who lives in a modest but very pricey house in the expensive Park Slope section of Brooklyn, Senator Schumer of all people should know better.
posted by The partisan moderate at 10:59 PM
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