Ninety percent of Americans are in the "middle class," meaning they earn between $25,000 to $60,000 per year as gross income. If these Americans could earn $200,000 a year in net income, they would feel pretty wealthy!
I think the best solution to the "fiscal cliff" debate is to recruit a less-than-50-cow dairy farmer, a beautician working on commission, a sanitation worker, a policeman and a dock worker to decide together when a person is old enough to retire and collect Social Security. They would also determine tax deductions and tax rates.
Millionaires and billionaires have made our tax laws for too many years. How can they relate to those who decide whether to pay the gas bill or buy food for children?
Don Cunningham
Fruit Heights
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This letter is pure nonsense. Its plan would result in economic disaster.
Why does the left wing continue to demonise wealth and success? Clearly, the left has forgotten, or chosen to ignore, the fact that America achieved historic More..
This is an excellent letter with some great ideas.
If anyone will stop to actually think about how we got into this mess, they would find it to be impossible to "deny the irrefutable fact" that it was CEO mentality in Congress More..
An excellent letter. But I would say that organizations such as the AARP do a good job lobbying for low wage earners such as those described in this letter. And if those jobs were able to unionize and collectively bargain, their lives would More..