So we did work on this, alongside working on jobs, because this is part of making sure that middle-class families are secure in this country.
And I ran precisely because I did not think middle-class families in this country were getting a fair shake.
And this makes sense, because in general, the middle class are more dependent on things like mortgage interest and state and local tax deductions than their wealthy brethren, and the elimination of those deductions would have punished those taxpayers to a greater extent than they would have benefited from the 20% reduction in their tax rate.
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Three years later, Senate Majority Leader and liberal democrat George Mitchell led the successful effort to repeal this tax because thousands of his middle-class constituents in Maine had suffered disproportionately from the collapse in the boating industry.
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Economists are almost completely useuless in this respect because, like reporters and news editors, they belong to the same class of highly paid professionals.
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This reduction in inequality has a racial component, because 75% of the new middle class is non-white.
Now I have been teaching this for over seven years because I heard these words over 10 years ago in a yoga class that totally woke me up from a deep sleep of ignorance of what really is.
So we cannot let this process result in a vote that raises taxes on middle-class Americans because a section of Congress not supported by the majority of the American people wants to protect the tax benefits of 300, 000 Americans.
He pulls it off, in part because this apparently immortal series desperately needed someone to take a risk, and because Mendes' class really comes through in the performances.
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Because at this moment, we must both restore confidence in our markets--and restore the confidence of middle class families, who find themselves working harder, earning less and falling further and further behind.
This past decade has been one of the toughest our middle class has faced in generations, because folks have seen their paychecks shrink, their housing prices fall, while the cost of everything -- from groceries to health care to college -- keeps going up.
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It got in there because this is what the Republicans said was the price of coming along for extending tax cuts for the middle class.
This trend will only accelerate as the middle class expands in mid-sized and smaller cities, because only one-fifth of lower-income Chinese currently own diamond jewelry.
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