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I remember when I was about 9 or 10 or so, at a friend's house. They lived in a trailer. His dad worked a steady job, but didn't make much. Like everyone in that area, including my family.
Anyway, we are watching some local politicians debate on PBS, I think. Some young guy, coming off like a sleazy used-car dealer vs. a much older guy who seemed even-keeled (to me).
Friend's dad starts ranting about how the older guy will....RAISE HIS TAXES. Being a young kid, I'm not going to argue with the rage-o-holic father, but....what, raise his taxes five cents?
Years later, and the quips about "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" rings so true. I was surrounded by them.
And then there is the reactionary centrist (lol, yeah, right - the guy was most definitely Libertarian or Republican) that was playing all innocent and pretending to not even understand how biased it was to use the company email system to send out a tax calculator to the "all" distribution for some referendum to tell you how much it would "cost" you.
Dude really pretended to not understand that taking the time to send that on the company dime while not providing any information about the benefits of the measure was only half the story. He kept bleating about how "you can read the measure for that". If the guy was truly that thick about how uneven his "neutral" email was, I cannot even. But I think he knew what he was doing. He would bat his eyes at anyone that brought it up and act all hurt about how HR had to talk to him about it.