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To: tejek who wrote (162082)	2/25/2003 4:42:52 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578843

The lower middle class and the working class are synonymous. Again I didn't say they where not. And the working class is not benefitting from the GOP's tax cuts because by the time you figure in all their deductions for children and mortgage payments, they don't pay any taxes. A lot of people in the lower middle class did pay taxes before the cuts esp. those without children. If they don't pay taxes then they shouldn't get tax cuts. So then, how is your original premise that the GOP is the friend of the working class as evidenced by these tax cuts true? The working class does not benefit from the tax cuts A number of them got dropped off the roles complelty or will in the next round of tax cuts. I consider that an advantage. Many working class people did pay taxes before the cuts. Also they benefit indirectly by the positive economic effects of tax cuts. The incomes of the top 20% continue to widen the gap from the lowest 80% As they did while Clinton was raising taxes. None of which means that the tax cuts do not benefit the working class. In fact the extent that the lower end of the working class did not benefit from the last round of tax cuts is largely due to previous tax cuts which dropped them off the tax roles back when Reagan was president. Tim