Do you think there should be a middle class in America, or just the very rich and the very poor?

Answer 1

Yes, we cannot have a democracy without a strong middle class. If we do not protect the middle class today in the U.S. with stronger tariffs that we use to have before Reagan and protect the industrial might that the world once feared. Now we import more goods then we export which means the U.S. is no longer self efficient. The middle class middle pay jobs are being replaced with low paying service jobs so everyone who works at Home Depot will eat at Applebees and everyone that works at Best Buy will shop at home Depot. etc. Conservative economics are not working, they haven`t worked since Reagan and most the Republicans today just do as they are told. Corporations are out of control, they even have us humans wearing their name on our clothes. The corporate royalist are back and they want you poor so you are too busy to be politically active

Answer 2

I do believe that there should always be a middle class in America, and that in an ideal America the size of the middle class would dwarf that of all other classes.

However, I do not believe that the government should intervene to engineer or promote that admittedly desirable result by such inherently unfair means as the redistribution of income or the placement of the government's heavy thumb on the scale to distort the outcomes of honest competition.

By the same token, I do not believe that the government should intervene to inhibit the attainment of the desirable result by equally unfair means aimed at promoting an opposite outcome favorable to the very rich.

Finally, I would strongly oppose a "ready-fire-aim" approach that proceeded from the logical fallacy that "Something must be done; this is something; therefore this must be done."

Answer 3

Since Ronald Reagan there has been a steady shift of wealth upwards from the middle class to the rich.

We have a middle class now, but is continually shrinking as more and more of the rich become super rich. This year, to make it onto the Forbes 400 one had to have a minimum of $1 billion. Guess where that money came from.

Answer 4

There should be a middle class. And the rich should do more to help the poor.

Answer 5

There should be a middle class, but I think more and more the middle class are getting squeezed into lower class. The rich are getting richer, and the poor are poorer.

Answer 6

The middle class is an obtainable social status for anyone intelligent and dilegent in working for it.

It's existance is proof of a sophisticated economy, and is the class that makes democracy work.

Answer 7

there should be a middle class, but I am worrying and seeing the rich get richer and the rest are getting poorer

Answer 8

There is already a middle class. I think the upper class should have to pay bigger taxes and do community service. Well, they dont have to do the community service.

Answer 9

Just set back and watch, in a few years their will only be two classes. people better get educated and do not Rely on the government.

Answer 10

tri-layer social stratification is only useful in dividing the servant classes and the semi-comfortable against each other in endless pissing contests. they've done a damn respectable job of subjugating the will of the people to their whim, and kept everyone asleep, drugged, bent over and lubed, sold prepackaged as toys for the richest to abuse and throw away..