During a recent town hall meeting, tea party favorite Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), elected during last year’s Republican wave in the U.S. House of Representatives, told a group of constituents that he wasn’t really wealthy. “I ain’t wealthy,” he said, according to video of the event. “… I live just like the rest of you folks.” His mandatory financial disclosures reveal Gosar’s net worth is over $2 million. He also earns a yearly salary of approximately $174,000 as a member of Congress.
Compared to the people he's supposed to be representing, every day working Americans, he's wealthy. But compared the people he's actually representing, billionaires who run multi-national corporations, he's not. Perhaps that's why he's confused.
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