[mountaineer]

The younger men looked like typical state-university students

Elitist snob, are you?

[hellinahandcart]

In any case, the attendees were wholly, completely relentlessly middle-class, and about 97 percent white.

Yep, he's a snob, all right. He can only take rich white Ivy League liberals seriously.

[hellinahandcart]

And if only we'd gone to Harvard, we might know how much we pay in taxes:

I began to suspect that they, like most people, don't realize that Americans pay only a moderate amount of taxes when compared to other developed, democratized nations. I also suspected that they really had no idea how much they pay in taxes, and from the looks of most of them, whatever they were paying wasn't depriving them of much.

Either we're "relentlessly middle class" or we're not, leftist douchebag; make up your mind.

He didn't really ask that question; if he had, he would have been told "national retail sales tax" at one and "flat tax" at the other.