Income Inequality: Are You Poor If You Have A Flat-Screen TV?

Are You Poor If You Own A Flat-Screen?
FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2011 file photo, shoppers look at televisions displayed at a Best Buy store, in Brentwood, Tenn. Weak demand for pricey flat-screen TVs and notebook computers helped push Best Buy Co.'s fourth-quarter net income down 16 percent. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2011 file photo, shoppers look at televisions displayed at a Best Buy store, in Brentwood, Tenn. Weak demand for pricey flat-screen TVs and notebook computers helped push Best Buy Co.'s fourth-quarter net income down 16 percent. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Can you really be poor if you own a flat-screen TV ... or two? Depends on whom you ask.

With income inequality at the center of the national political debate this year, it should be no surprise that conservatives and liberals are coming down on opposite sides of the tracks.

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