Income tax punishes the middle class, value-added tax is riddled with anomalies (pet food is charged at 7%, baby food 19%) and corporate tax saps competitiveness.
Rooted in solid middle class values, these marriages are inherently modern, informed by urban influences.
Universal health care, or what remains of it in the public option, is an anathema to those middle class values.
The upwardly mobiles are moving in and bringing in middle class values, which don't work in a working class community.
These are shows that represent both British and traditionally white, middle class values, and they are designed for enjoyment and escapism.
Like the 1983 decision to deregulate the City, which unbalanced the UK economy and corroding the middle class values of thrift and hard work.
Alison Reid, communications manager for the trust, reacts swiftly to any hint that putting ballet on the Manor is imposing middle class values on the community.
Nearly 40 years ago, Mao warned his comrades that enemies of the Cultural Revolution would arrive to try to change China through "peaceful evolution," nudging third-generation cadres back toward the comfortable middle class values dominant in the West.
They could have, quite logically, come out with the narrative "we have listened, we know the middle class values universality as a principle, and the cash in practice".
If the UK, that bastion of right living and solid middle class values, lifts walls against the pornographic aggressor, what is to stop the U.S. from doing the same thing?
