Once again, please demonstrate how a 1.8 percent increase in average salaries, coupled with a 2.2 percent rate of inflation, is a postive for working Americans. And, it IS relevant to differentiate government salaries from private-sector salaries - because WE pay for government salaries out of our taxes. So if government salaries went up, so did our tax burden. And the private sector drives economic growth.
So, once again, private sector salaries only went up .8 percent last year. Which means a net decline of 1.4 percent in purchasing power after inflation is factored in. Which means people are falling behind, dipweed. And that doesn't even factor in millions of unemployed.
I don't expect you to grasp this, I'm just revealing to the rest of the forum just how deranged you are willing to make your posts.
Average salaries going UP is always a positive for working Americans. Certainly the alternative is unattractive.
And what your tax burden is now is one thing, what it might be in the future, however, is mere speculation.
You have already admitted that your paycheck is larger due to Bush's tax cuts, so your tax burden is lower, not higher.
That you feel compelled to go into future "might be" scenarios simply shows that your overall argument has no merit today.
Hey, don't forget "reprehensible," which you also called me.
You've got quite a few ad hominems to attempt to compensate for your dearth of facts, but can you substantiate your wild-eyed claim that the American middle class is physically shrinking in size?!