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The middle class gets hit hard because you raise taxes on the middle class.
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We predicted it would hit the middle class hard, even though it was intended to prevent the rich from using too many tax shelters.
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Despite such sentiments, both sides still seemed eager to head off the big 2013 tax hikes which will hit the middle class, as well as the wealthy, without a deal.
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And long before this recession hit, the middle class had been taking some hard shots.
The Alternative Minimum Tax, a levy originally aimed at the rich, is set to hit 30m middle-class Americans.
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Over the past decade, even before the recession hit, middle-class families were struggling to get by as the costs went up for everything, from health care, to college tuition, to groceries, to gas.
The American middle class has been hit hard by the ongoing global economic crisis.
As a result, the middle class will get hit with tax increases aimed at the rich.
Obama and Democrats argue that increased revenue, including higher tax rates on the wealthy, must be part of broader deficit reduction to prevent the middle class from getting hit too hard.
Obama and Democrats argue that increased revenue, including higher tax rates on the wealthy, must be part of broader deficit reduction to avoid the middle class from getting hit too hard.
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The Alternative Minimum Tax would have hit close to 30 million middle class households by now.
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On top of that, the cut in the payroll tax that funds Social Security will expire, meaning those same middle class families will get hit twice.
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The middle class has been badly hit: perhaps 100, 000 people have lost their homes because of a combination of earlier interest-rate rises and falling property prices.
If we allow that tax cut to expire -- if we refuse to act -- middle-class families will get hit with a tax increase at the worst possible time.
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And the fact that the short-term bipartisan compromise passed by almost the entire Senate is the only option to ensure that middle-class families are not hit with a tax hike in 10 days and gives both sides the time needed to work out a full-year solution.
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Its important North American routes and business have been hard hit by the collapse in business-class travel.
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And of course, long before this recession hit, for a decade middle-class families had been experiencing a sense of declining economic security.
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