And one wonders where you get your reading skills from.
$18 billion spread out over many tens of thousands of people isn't as much as it seems. Many of the businesses on Wall Street are still doing quite well. Those bonuses are probably based on a commission of some sort. As the article points out, many of the eat the rich crowd are shooting state tax collection in the foot by going after these socalled rich people. Around where I live, $100K/year would be considered rich, but in a place like NYC $100K/year isn't likely to get you much more than a 800 sq. apartment.
As for the bailout, you might want to talk to your democrat overlords. They were pushing for it every bit as hard as Bush. That alone shows how rotten it was.