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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Interesting opinion.
So, the top 10% of earners paying 77% of all income tax and the top 53% paying 100% of that tax isn't "fair enough". I suppose handing out social service $$$ that would require an uneducated single mother of 2 to hold a job that pays $78,000/year to break even is fair?
Just giving the opposing viewpoint
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It is generally common knowledge that in the 50s and 60s that a middle class family could have as many as 3 children and STILL be happy and feeling successful with their lives with ONLY ONE PERSON WORKING FULL TIME AT ONLY ONE JOB (usually the husband). Today it is generally considered necessary for BOTH the husband and wife to work (often more than 1 job for greater than 40 hours per week). And then they must decided IF they can afford to have ONE child.
.........So, we ask ourselves, "What has changed in those 65-some years until today". Obviously, a lot has changed, but to me, the most important change has been the tax laws changing to benefit the upper class over the middle class.
.........Certainly, there have been other noteworthy changes. The OUTSOURCING of American manufacturing has benefited the upper 10% and has HURT the middle class, which by 2000 really ceased to exist.
..........Increased immigration after 1980 also has helped eliminate the middle class.
..........Decimation of US UNIONS has also been a factor in the demise of the middle class.
..........Part of the reason behind the UHC executive shooting and the so-called "UNEXPLAINED" lack of sympathy for the murdered executive and his family is explained by the MIDDLE CLASS TENSION existing throughout US society. I do NOT see this going away soon BECAUSE of the problems that I have enumerated above.