In "Living on Borrowed Money" (column, Nov. 10), Bob Herbert quite rightly focuses on ballooning debt as one of the shaky pillars under the middle class.
But a person earning $1,000,000 or more would get a $34,500 tax break under her "middle class millionaire" proposal.
They've looted the treasury, pulled the rug out from under the working middle class, and re-routed our country's resources back to the war machine and the wealthiest 1%.
Two key parts of its coalition are under threat: younger, middle class, left-leaning liberals are being tempted by a resurgent Green party, and there are tentative signs that its grip on some parts of the ethnic minority vote is weakening.
As Apted now admits, there were too few women – outnumbered 10 to four by the men – and the middle class was under-represented.
Despite under-representation in politics, the middle class swelled in numbers, profiting from a growth in trade which had increased the status of merchants.
What about security for the rest of us -- the middle class and the under class?
Lithuanians, shorn of their middle class under Soviet occupation, are impressed by experience abroad.
Under $250,000, you're middle class; over it and you're wealthy.
Under their plan, the middle class gets a little and the wealthy get an awful lot.
The story of the middle class under Labour and now the Coalition is of a never-ending shake-down..
