Scott Brown has the interests of rich teachers at heart

by David Safier

Scott Brown wants to show he cares about the little people more than Elizabeth Warren. That's why he's worried raising taxes on everyone who makes more than $250,000 per year will hurt “teachers, firefighters, policemen, folks who work two jobs.”

I mean, consider the lot of a husband and wife, one a teacher, one a firefighter. The teacher works a summer job. Somehow, that will raise their average income to more than $125,000 each. I have trouble figuring out how that's gonna happen. But if it does, they'll have to pay the higher tax . . .

On every dollar over $250,000. If they make a thousand over that, they might pay as much as $50 extra. And it would be a burden on hard working teachers (whose salary and benefits Brown wants to cut) to have to shoulder that $50 burden — even if they're pulling in a quarter million.

Keep this up, Scott. Bend yourself into a pretzel, and you'll lose the election on your own.