Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
I missed were this was cited in the thread. Where did we determine that a majority of those on the lower end spend a third of their income on luxuries. Best I saw was Loki's link that said they spend a combined 6.5% on entertainment and cigs.

I saw where you said 34% without citation, how that evolved into "well over a third" is a question in and of itself.
I'm guessing he's aggregating the numbers from two different data sets. The New York smokers data set with incomes <= $30,000, (which spent almost a quarter of their income on cigarettes) and the $13,000 a year and under data set who on average spent 9% of their money on the lottery.

That's not going to yield an accurate or meaningful result, but I'm guessing that's what happened.