Just plain folks

If you had made last year as much money as John McCain spent on household help alone $273,000 &#8212 you’d be richer than 95% of American families.

Update

One of Matt Yglesias’s commenters makes a useful point:

Bear in mind that all but one of their properties are high-service luxury condo facilities, so that most of the staff to maintain those places would be employed by the various condo associations and not the McCains. The cost of guards, pool staff, door staff, maintenance, even maid service would either be passed along to the residents as “common charges” or billed as services.

In other words, most of the staffing costs for keeping up the condo residences would never show up on an accounting of “household staff.”

It would be interesting to find out what actually goes into that $273K — but the bottom line is that this figure likely disguises as much as it reveals.

My bet is that most of this is spent at the Sedona Ranch alone, but that’s just a guess…