“WHERE ARE THE JOBS MR. _RESIDENT??!” ~ Diana in Wisconsin, House Speaker *SMIRK*
The business of America....for over two hundred years...has been business itself. If you do anything to hamper, limit, or marginalize business...from the little guy who owns a one-man muffler repair shop to a 100k employee bank...then you jeopardize the whole structure and being of the nation.
When we invited special interest groups into government meddling, then added tax “help” and tax “anchors” to tax code, and then tossed in some incompetent political folks (for both sides of the aisle)....we basically chained ourselves to the federal government being the solution to just about everything.
We’ve become a nation of “political-Jesus-believers”, that the only way to save us...is through some miracle performed by the political-Jesus. Only the political-Jesus can deliver or stop the Canadian pipeline. Only the political-Jesus can put people to work. Only the political-Jesus can save us from the aftermath of a hurricane. Only the political-Jesus can stop all gun crimes by his mighty executive powers.
Unfortunately, this is not like a bad movie that you can walk out of the theater after thirty minutes. Other than firing the whole crowd, or making everyone grasp the naive nature that we’ve sunk to....there’s just about nothing left to do.
Anything that the government could do to “help” the middle class, or any class, for that matter, first necessitates an extraction of capital from the private sector, which would harm the economy as a whole. In the end, all classes are affected adversely, especially the lower and middle rungs, due to lack of capital being invested and put at risk.
It can’t be done, that is, “help” a particular segment, by harming the whole.