President Obama brings his “middle class tax relief” tour Thursday to Leesburg, VA., — which sits in the richest county in the country.
Loudon County’s official web site notes its median income of $119,540 is “#1 ranked in the USA.” This sleepy dairy farmland turned affluent Washington exurb and host to major government contractors is also one of the nation’s fastest growing. Unemployment is a mere 3.9 percent.
So it’s a safe bet that Obama’s to raise taxes on wealthy households to ease the burden on middle-class families would actually hike taxes for many Loudon County households. The president may not tweak his us vs. them message, however, because virtually everyone thinks of themselves as middle-class, noted Virginia Tech professor Bob Denton.
“Frankly, even those who make over $250,000, especially in and around DC, don’t actually view themselves as rich, much less the super rich,” he said. “The relative wealth of the neighborhood will get little notice nationally unless the media confronts or asks about the irony.”
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