Comments on: Interlude- Wherein I Get On My Soapbox http://www.thejobbored.com/interlude-wherein-i-get-on-my-soapbox_611/ Getting Things Done, Getting Ahead, Getting Through The Day Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:29:08 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dee http://www.thejobbored.com/interlude-wherein-i-get-on-my-soapbox_611/comment-page-1/#comment-832 Dee Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:34:13 +0000 http://www.thejobbored.com/interlude-wherein-i-get-on-my-soapbox_611/#comment-832 Great post. It seems that the workers' well-being isn't high on the list of the government's or corporations' priorities. Great post. It seems that the workers’ well-being isn’t high on the list of the government’s or corporations’ priorities.

]]> By: Willy http://www.thejobbored.com/interlude-wherein-i-get-on-my-soapbox_611/comment-page-1/#comment-830 Willy Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:26:54 +0000 http://www.thejobbored.com/interlude-wherein-i-get-on-my-soapbox_611/#comment-830 The salary figure has little meaning unless it is accompanied by a statistic on whether people are working more or less over the same period. There's a solid chance that people are happy with their income level, and are responding by working less (or not working more). It seems to me like the Times has cherry picked some numbers, and not put them in context. The total effective tax rate for people at the median has also fallen from almost 17% to about 14% over that period of time. Looks like the Bush administration has addressed the problem quite well... http://www.house.gov/jec/news/2008/Feb/pr110-35.pdf The salary figure has little meaning unless it is accompanied by a statistic on whether people are working more or less over the same period.

There’s a solid chance that people are happy with their income level, and are responding by working less (or not working more).

It seems to me like the Times has cherry picked some numbers, and not put them in context.

The total effective tax rate for people at the median has also fallen from almost 17% to about 14% over that period of time. Looks like the Bush administration has addressed the problem quite well…

http://www.house.gov/jec/news/2008/Feb/pr110-35.pdf

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