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How would redefine "Middle Class America"?
GOP gave us tax cuts which helps
GOP now will claim the economy is great with Stock Market breaking the 12000 barrier.
BUT
What impact has inflation had on everything that a Middle Class American buys?
Gasoline, Health Insurance costs and coverage, Groceries are a majority of outgoing expenses in our households. How does the increase in these prices compare to what we are saving with the GOP tax cuts? Why doesn't anyone address this?
And what about exporting jobs overseas? If these big companies take away our jobs , how do they expect us to buy their products?
If companies pay low wages to illegal immigrants and refuse to pay competitive wages to legal citizens, how do they expect us to buy their products?
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- TJDLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
Why should the ruling class give a f*ck? They are all in on it together- have you ever met a "poor" or "middle class" or even a "working class" politician? Do you truly believe that they serve "we, the people"? If the politicians that we CONSTANTLY reelect year after year gave a shiite- changes would happen. Period. But as long as there are special interest groups and lobbyist paying out 100's of MILLIONS of dollars to sway politicians their way, we will continue to suffer as a nation. We are being "raped and pillaged" from our own people. Check the internet and see how many new billionaires are added each year in the U.S.!
- open4oneLv 71 decade ago
I'm going to answer the question you should have asked, but apparently don't understand the reality of the American tax structure to ask it.
The "lower class" are those that depend on one or more government subsidies, which of course are funded by taxes, and these subsidies provide more to their standard of living (if not direct income) than they pay in taxes. Basically, they do not pay taxes.
The "upper class" are people who have the ability to pass any tax on them to someone else. They include landowners, professionals (doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers), most elected politicians, business owners, and anyone that decides their own salaries (CEO's and boardmembers). These people do not pay taxes.
The "middle class" is everyone else. They spend their lives wondering why they can't get to be upper class, and it's because the lower class wants someone to pay the taxes they enjoy, and the upper class doesn't care because they are totally immune to tax increases. People in the middle class who learn the truth either become bitter liberals who self-destructively fight reality by looking for ways to increase taxes on the wealthy, or find a way to protect themselves from confiscatory taxation by passing the burden on to someone else, thereby joining the upper class.
If you realize this, it isn't hard to figure out that illegal immigration and outsourcing are beneficial to the upper class, and only a problem to the middle class, who either pay the increased tax burden, or lose their jobs and become lower class.
As long as we have an income tax structure, it will "soak the middle class" and no one else.
