This goes back decades now with politicians on both the right and left claiming to support “middle class tax cuts” and nobody asks “how do you define ‘middle class’?”
"House Republicans issued a fact sheet about their new tax cut plan that referred to Americans earning $450,000 a year as “low- and middle-income”—even though that income level would put those taxpayers in the top 0.5 percent of all individual Americans.
The median household income in the United States is $59,039, after all."
Don’t feel guilty for self-survival. This is the situation capitalism has put many of us in, harming ourselves to help other people. It’s not an easy choice.
Good news. When the world economy collapses it becomes much easier to see the class divisions.
I’m very disappointed that nobody in the media bothers with follow up questions.
“The economy is booming!”
“For who?” For Joe ‘I own a yacht’ Manchin? Yeah, I’m sure it is.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/joe-manchin-healthcare-expansion-yacht-b1931509.html
This goes back decades now with politicians on both the right and left claiming to support “middle class tax cuts” and nobody asks “how do you define ‘middle class’?”
https://www.newsweek.com/tax-cuts-republicans-middle-class-trump-701094
"House Republicans issued a fact sheet about their new tax cut plan that referred to Americans earning $450,000 a year as “low- and middle-income”—even though that income level would put those taxpayers in the top 0.5 percent of all individual Americans.
The median household income in the United States is $59,039, after all."
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Being out of touch implies they don’t understand the situation. They fully understand, they don’t care.
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Don’t feel guilty for self-survival. This is the situation capitalism has put many of us in, harming ourselves to help other people. It’s not an easy choice.
Good news. When the world economy collapses it becomes much easier to see the class divisions.