Joe Scarborough was just grilling Tina Brown about taxing people who make more than $250,000 a year. How ridiculous is this example:
Will you say somebody making $250,000 -- hold on, let me ask you this, Tina -- if I get you $250,000. If you had a family of five, if you had two kids in college and one kid in school in New York City. If you had to pay New York city taxes, New York state taxes, federal taxes, and Barack Obama was calling you rich? How would you take that?
If you have a family of five with two kids in college and you make $250,000 a year -- and you live in New York City? Well then, you're a gigantic idiot! New York City with kids in college on a $250,000 salary? Unless you live in a rent controlled apartment with your litter of children stacked up like cord wood, then you shouldn't be living in one of the most expensive cities in the world. Scarborough and his super stupid straw men.
How about this, Joe. Let's say you earn $5 million a year, but you live on your own island in a castle made of solid gold with 38 children in college -- on the surface of the Moon at Surface of the Moon University, which you personally founded with your own money... And Barack Obama was calling you rich? No, no. Barack Obama should be calling you a gigantic idiot.