Limbaugh Says $250,000 Isn’t Wealthy
For all their talk of deficits, conservatives don't ever want to pay for them. Rush Limbaugh says people making more than $250,000 a year -- who may just have to brace for a tax hike to keep our budget shortfalls somewhere in this galaxy -- do not qualify as wealthy.For all their talk of deficits, conservatives don’t ever want to pay for them. Rush Limbaugh says people making more than $250,000 a year — who may just have to brace for a tax hike to keep our budget shortfalls somewhere in this galaxy — do not qualify as wealthy.
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