<story><title>Please Don&apos;t Show Us Another “Typical Family Earning $270,000 a Year”</title><url>http://www.slate.com/redirect/business/2017/12/why-are-sample-families-in-tax-plan-analyses-so-rich.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>esmi</author><text>“Rafa Nadal and I have an average of 5 French Open titles.”
That is a quote I&amp;#x27;m going to have to remember.   Should come in handy often.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chch</author><text>Reminds me of a similar factoid:&lt;p&gt;Wayne and Brent Gretzky hold the National Hockey League record for most combined points by two brothers:&lt;p&gt;Wayne Gretzky with 2,857, Brent Gretzky with 4.</text></comment>
<story><title>Please Don&apos;t Show Us Another “Typical Family Earning $270,000 a Year”</title><url>http://www.slate.com/redirect/business/2017/12/why-are-sample-families-in-tax-plan-analyses-so-rich.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>esmi</author><text>“Rafa Nadal and I have an average of 5 French Open titles.”
That is a quote I&amp;#x27;m going to have to remember.   Should come in handy often.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twoodfin</author><text>It turns out, though, that the median family of four has an income pretty close to the average family of four, so this point is a little less clever than most of the folks who are making it believe.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&amp;#x2F;actually-the-average-family-of-four-really-will-save-more-than-2000-from-this-bill&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;2644184&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&amp;#x2F;actually-the-average-famil...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>