They object to a myopic focus in the tax debate on how tax burdens are distributed among income classes.
Unions, after all, represent workers, nearly all of whom are in the income classes currently lacking effective political representation.
The economy's problems include high unemployment, mediocre productivity gains and stagnant or slow-growing earnings for most income classes.
There is, however, a catch: the president has to agree to raise marginal tax rates on all income classes, not just on the rich.
This puts a severe constraint on their efforts, because tax expenditures are not evenly distributed across income classes, nor is the burden of taxation.
In a region with a median household income for a family of four of $84,346, making it among the richest areas in the country, the poll found a pervasive case of the jitters among all income classes.
Congress could tweak the subsidies so they don't phase out so quickly, but then we're back to very high fiscal costs and subsidies for many families in the higher income classes.
Using this information, calculate the percentage of your community population by different income classes, and within each class graph the range of education, gender, ethnicity and other demographic variables.
But a significant portion of all income classes – ranging from 10% for the upper-middle class to 40% for those on benefits or out of work – used one or no sources of information before choosing a school.
Although markets have "vastly expanded credit to virtually all income classes," Mr. Greenspan said in a speech on March 22, he was concerned about "abusive lending practices that target specific neighborhoods or vulnerable segments of the population".
As a New York Times data analysis showed last fall, the average tax rate paid by people of all income classes has fallen since the mid-1990s, including that for wealthier people.
