ACHY BREAKY MIDDLE CLASS -- by Steve Nadis
We've been hearing a lot lately about how much the middle class is hurtin', and I know--from personal experience--how hard it is to make ends meet these days. I happened to choose a profession where financial renumeration has barely gone up in 20 years. The thing is, after tonight's (last night's, for the sticklers) debate between Barack and Hillary, I'm not sure I'm even close to the middle class. Clinton promised not to raise taxes for middle-class families earning LESS THAN $250,000. And she wasn't talking about how much they earned in a decade. That was for a single year. I don't know how you define middle class, and I have even discussed that very topic in these pages, but I never figured it extended up to that lofty register. By my standards, folks earning that kind of bread are way beyond middle class. Them are rich.
