May
2012
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
David Edwards, Raw Story
Submitted by: Jon Gilbert

Rep. John Fleming: $400,000 Douchebag

[Raw Story] Tea party Republican John Fleming (R-LA) played the victim card evoking the specter of "class warfare" in his pathetic effort to criticize President Barack Obama’s plan to make millionaires pay about the same tax rate as the people that work for them.

[Raw Story] “With all due respect, The Wall Street Journal estimated that your businesses, which I believe are Subway sandwich shops and UPS stores — very successful — brought you last year, over $6 million,” MSNBC’s Chris Jansing noted.

[Raw Story] “Yeah, that’s before you pay 500 employees, you pay rent, you pay equipment and food,” Fleming agreed. “Since my net income — and again, that’s the individual rate that I told you about — the amount that I have to reinvest in my business and feed my family is more like $600,000 of that $6.3 million. And so by the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over to invest in new locations, upgrade my locations, buy more equipment.”

How did this clown get elected? Asshole. 

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