See my post # 57.
Even if we gave up the big screens, the cars, the trips, and all that.... The gubmint still takes way so much more than 50 years ago.
I'm convinced that if we enacted the Fair Tax , mom and dad would not have to work.
I think for some you are right, probably the vast working class. But I see well to do men with wives that work and farm out the children and compete to see who has the most expensive nanny. I think people just consume constantly, buy buy buy, more and more. It seems nutsy to me lately.