One of these things just doesn’t belong here…

Brad DeLong sends me to Xenos taking note of a Wall Street Journal article, How Much Will Your Taxes Jump?  The article features this figure:

WSJ_tax_figure

Hmm…  What doesn’t pass the laugh test in this picture?

(Hint:  Read the fine print.  While the African-American preppies are perhaps not who immediately come to mind when I imagine retirees earning $180k/year it’s not them, not by a long shot.  You do wonder though why they look so depressed if their taxes haven’t been raised.  Price of Izod shirts and docksiders went up?  Or maybe Mitt had promised them tickets to the inaugural ball?)

Yes, you got it.  It’s the single mother of two pulling down $260k.  Quite the go-getter.