I would like to have a virtual dog to take a virtual crap on this publication. On line, that is.
You are falling into and buying the Marxist line of class struggle. Think it over, critically.
I don’t know that this class is ruining America but I do know they’re growing and the middle class is disappearing.
Here in the Houston area $500,000 homes are selling like hot cakes. A friend in the business told me yesterday that when she tells prospects the houses “start at $580,000 the response is “That’s not bad.” Three years ago it was hard to sell a $200,000 house in the same area. I don’t know where they’re getting the money. And I feel like the bubble is getting bigger and bigger.
Middle class. Upper middle class. Lower middle class. Those are really vague distinctions. But what has destroyed America is liberalism. And liberals come from all socio-economic levels.
I’m thinking its more of the elitist class on both sides of the aisle destroying the bedrock class.
The booshie libs are just taking a lesson from the rich liberals -- who are doing all they can to make sure that the tax structure prevents anyone they don't approve of from entering their ranks.
Not more of the Obama War on the Producers and the Takers want more free stuff. Look around the country what is ruining the country it is not the producers it is the takers. Look at Minnesota the Somalias there who receive food stamps want the program to approve pork free food products at tax payers expense. The Obamabots free phones that is pitted with fraud and abuse. Come now how many poor people are starting businesses and hiring. The marxist socilist crappola is creeping in everywhere
So now they’re open about “liquidating the kulaks as a class”...professing amazement and disappointment that people who have actually made it, and achieved their level of the American Dream, would (GASP) *dare* to protect their own interests.
Most of us are only a few generations away from when our ancestors were serfs.
The term “upper middle class” is being used as a synonym for “bourgeois/bourgeoisie”.
And we all know what generally happens to them at the hands of, say, the Bolsheviks when The Glorious Revolution cooks off, right?
Oh well. I have a friend whose brother got a GED. Never went to college. Knocks down $250-400K a year depending on how he does in his field. If someone called him upper middle class of whatever, he’d laugh at them. What matters is that the job gets done - he works right alongside his workers.
I grew up in Manhattan, from the wonderful late sixties right through the worst of the 70s-80s. But I tell you, rich and poor lived in the same neighborhood. I went to school with some extremely wealthy people and some extremely poor people. Poor white people too, fwiw.
I never realized we had a class system in America until I saw the movie “Caddyshack”. It was a complete revelation to me.
Some things have gotten much, much better in this country over the ensuing decades, but our system of class striation has gotten much, much worse.
I am of the opinion that there are two tax rate discussions that need to happen in this nation. They can be summarized by two questions:
What is the minimum tax percentage that everyone, regardless of income or deductions should pay?
and
What is the maximum tax percentage that anyone should have to pay?
Granted there are many other tax discussions that should take place, but these two questions should be addressed by the alternative minimum tax (already exists but needs modification) and the alternative maximum tax (does not exist.
I propose that the minimum should be at least 5% and the maximum should be no more than 25%
left vs left
I’m in New Jersey and I make low 6 figures as a business owner. I grew up dirt poor in New York city in a terrible neighborhood. I guess I would be considered upper middle class but with my background, I don’t feel like it. Societal class distinctions are fascinating to me, probably because it seems like I straddle two different worlds. This is a great topic. Thanks for your insight.
The fatal error of this pundit (and Obama’s attack on saving for college).
Americans want to join the Upper Middle Class, not rot in the lower classes.
the upper classes are now and always ruled America