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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Rarebird who wrote (1050976)1/27/2018 4:59:35 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1577394
 
Rarebird,
I don't think Bernie Sander's political philosophy is "designed to crush the upper middle income."
Good intentions are irrelevant. What always ends up happening is that the "middle class" gets squeezed from the top.

That's how you can end up with a whole bunch of people living on $100K, $200K, even $300K per year, and still calling themselves "middle class."

Remember when the threshold for being "rich" was $250K/year? Every Democrat from Obama to Gov. Jerry Brown used that threshold to push for higher taxes on the "rich."

Tenchusatsu

P.S. - Republicans aren't much different. Even the Trump tax plan squeezes the upper middle class thanks to the SALT deduction cap and the mortgage interest deduction cap. Because those "blue states" need to pay up ...
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