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Middle class

"Even when uttered by Democrats, middle class often sounds like a
mealymouthed way of saying, Us, and not them, where them includes poor
people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues."


- - Barbara Ehrenreich







.IncomeHousingEducationInvestments
$7.500,000 +...
$1,750,000 +...
$1,00,000 +...
$500,000 +...
$250,000 - $500,000 +2..
$100,000 - $250,000 +...
$250,000 - $500,000 +.1..

The debate over who and what are middle class will become more intense as economic programs are aimed and promoted to rescue, assist, and promote the middle class.

See references:
1. $250,000 to $500,000 income mortgage struggle.
2. New healthcare taxes on individuals earning $280,000 and up.
3. Middle class: only up to $250, 000 annual income ?
4. Under $250,000 is middle class: Obama.
5. Middle class at $150k.
6. America's middle class is motorized mobilized.
7. Krugman and Clinton: middle class up to $250,000 in 1993.
8. Middle class is in the middle.
9. Middle class, social security, FICA taxes.
10. Tax breaks for income over $250,000 for a family to expire ? Middle class could suffer.
11. (Upper) middle class: assets of $2 million to $15 million, "the lower end of the high end" -- divorce(e) advocate.
12. Alternative minimum tax (AMT).
13. Democrat messaging.
14. Middle class turns wealthy from $1.75 to $7.5 million -- Fidelity Investments
15. Middle class NY Times readres make $119k (2009).

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