[Tuco-bad]

As for my financial state, my wife and I would be considered "upper-middle class".

Yeah - that's why your wife has to work!

[Dead Corpse]

She chooses to do so. She isn't much of a "bare-foot and pregnant" type. My salary alone is more than enough to keep even our current bills paid.

Hardly the issue though.

The Cato institute has a lot of extremely good research on most of the issues of the day. I suggest you set aside a few hours and read up on some of it.