<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">It probably depends upon whether "middle income" means the arithmetic mean (sum of AGI / number of tax returns), or the median (sort the numbers by AGI from smallest to largest and pick the middle one). Very likely they are two vastly different numbers. I have no idea if $200,000 is near the arithmetic mean or not, but it is definitely not the median value.<br><br>Paul<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Tom Hansen
<thansen@moscow.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, September 17, 2012 2:53 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Huh?<br> </font> </div> <br>From the web: "... based on information from the IRS, fewer than 3% of<br>tax returns (3.924 million returns out of 140+ million total returns)<br>claimed more than $200,000 in adjusted gross income (AGI) in tax year<br>2009 (more current data is not available)."<br><br>Romney is reaching out to the middle 3%! Joe<br><br>On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Tom Hansen <<a ymailto="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Courtesy of Business Insider at:<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-middle-income-2012-9"
target="_blank">http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-middle-income-2012-9</a><br>><br>> -------------------------------------<br>><br>> "An interesting quote from Mitt Romney in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos:<br>><br>> GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Is $100,000 middle income?<br>><br>> MITT ROMNEY: No, middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less."<br>><br>> ------------------------------------<br>><br>> Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .<br>><br>> "Moscow Cares"<br>> <a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" target="_blank">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a><br>><br>> Tom Hansen<br>> Moscow, Idaho<br>><br>> "We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."<br>><br>> - Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)<br>><br>><br>>
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