08/17/2026
Don't be mad at the guy saying you and your family should be paid better wages, have better schools, and get better healthcare. Be mad at the rich guy trying to tell you that the little you have now is all you'll ever deserve. And pity the poor man who truly believes he doesn't deserve a better life.
In the state of New Hampshire, 7000 families account for 25% of all of the income reported annually, about $20 billion dollars each year. That is 1% of the people, earning 25% of all income in the state. The bottom 90%, so ~600,000 families, earn about $40 billion.
To put that into some perspective, each of those 7000 families makes about $2.85 million dollars in income a year. That's the average income of 28 families combined. That doesn't include money not included as income, it doesn't include wealth in real estate, in vehicles, in purchased goods. It's the new money they get each year.
If those highest earning families paid just 2% more in taxes each year to New Hampshire, the state would bring in $400 million dollars annually, and those families would be left with only $19.6 billion dollars, so $2.8 million a year. That would eliminate NHs local education tax completely (about $363 million annually), and those families wouldn't see any change to their standard of living or quality of life. To put that number into perspective, during the 1950's the top 1% paid an effective tax rate of 45%. Right now, they pay around 25%.
Do you think things have gotten better economically since the 1950s? Do you think the American dream is any closer than it was then? Of course not. No one is asking for some kind of crazy, socialist utopia. What we want is a world where the economic system is fair. Where it is once again seen as a gross injustice for one person to consume 28 times as much as their neighbors.
