Philip Klein pivots off of the quote Ron Kind gave me in Wisconsin, when the congressman bemoaned that a “poor guy” like Russ Feingold might be booted out of the Senate.
Kind has an odd definition of “poor.” As a Senator, RussFeingold earns $174,000 a year – which easily puts him in the top 5percent of income earners according to IRS data.
But what makes Kind’s remark odder still is his definition of”wealthy.”
At a recent debate, Kind defended his support for raising taxes… so, under Kind’s set of definitions, Feingold – as anindividual earning $174,000 – is a “poor person.” Yet a household earning $250,000 is wealthy.
Zing!
