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arcane1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:21 PM Original message |
Poll question: Does your paycheck come from the pocket of a rich person? |
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sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. No The 99%. |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:55 PM Response to Reply #1 |
21. Bingo. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
2. Both are true. I work for a privately-owned holding company. |
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greyl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:25 PM Response to Original message |
3. Too late to add "own and run my own business" as an option? nt |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:27 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I think that automatically makes you one of the 1% |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Oh don't I wish... |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 06:03 PM Response to Reply #9 |
24. Indeed. After 25 years of self-employment I am poorer than when I started, |
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enough (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. No it doesn't, not at all. My husband and I have run our own business all our |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:37 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I was being sarcastic. |
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enough (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 06:11 PM Response to Reply #12 |
29. Oh, sorry. I misinterpreted the icon. Got my dander up. (nt) |
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greyl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:49 PM Response to Reply #4 |
18. Heheh, yeah, too those who don't pause to think for a second. :) nt |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:50 PM Response to Reply #4 |
19. oops... edit |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 06:09 PM Response to Reply #4 |
28. Many small business people are poor as church mice |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:32 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. ditto |
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Uben (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
5. Other because..... |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
6. Other. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
7. What is this "paycheck" of which you speak? |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
8. Social security |
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mucifer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
13. I'm lucky. I work for a small non profit hospice |
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ceile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
14. Other. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:42 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Do you ever get donations from people you regard as wealthy? |
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ceile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:55 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. Well.... |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
16. public employee, so my employers are legion--whoever pays a tax of any kind in CA |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:48 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. I believe some taxes are earmarked in California |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
22. A. I don't get a "paycheck" per se. If there is money left after paying bills |
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hughee99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
23. The founder of my company |
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Cal Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
25. What a backwards question |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 06:53 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. Be nice. |
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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
26. Paycheck? |
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WillyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
27. State And Federal Taxes... So My Pay Comes From The 99% |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
31. a wealthy person has never given me a job , i hire people sometimes and 'm poor |
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saras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 07:13 PM Response to Original message |
32. They all come from productive labor, no matter who handles them in between |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
33. Payroll, the money to fund it comes from wealth, the poor, government, and any number of sources |
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Nikia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 08:46 PM Response to Original message |
34. I work for a family owned company |
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