Would you agree that the war on the middle class began with Reagan and has continued every since?

Answer 1

Yes, but I would say that Reagan launced the war on middle class and poor. Remember he was the one when told that school lunches had to offer two vegetables and the budget did not allow that said. "Tomatoes are vegetables, all schools offer ketchup, so there are always two vegetables." Reagan did not care about any one making less then $100,000. Greed is good, income for average people have stagnated every year since, while the rich have increased every year since. Where is your golden parachute?

Answer 2

The "war on the middle class" began with FDR. Johnson and his democrat congress expanded it. Carter went a little further by providing benefits to immigrants that never paid in. Reagan didn't hold a candle to those three. The personal income tax is the biggest gun in the "war". Some of the other guns would be the attacks on the second amendment and our property rights through eminent domain.

edit: Michael S. - Friedman didn't fail to realize that the market has no feelings. He realized it full well. What he realized is that if you try to put feelings into the market you can only screw it up. Its like saying Darwin didn't realize nature has no feelings. The free market is an almost perfect reflection of nature. survival of the fittest. If you can't adapt you become extinct.

Answer 3

Milton Friedman is the chief architect of what is now the war on the middle class. His work from the 1950's is the basis for the "free market" ideas being pushed on us now. I wonder how someone as brilliant as Friedman failed to realize that the market has no feelings, no compassion. If you care to revert to "jungle law" and absolute survival of the fittest, maybe he is your guy.

edit: nick b - in that case we can consider the French Revolution to be the natural result of the "free market."

Answer 4

Why is it that liberals can't conceive of the possibility that the middle classification can 'cut back' in 2 instructions. In a liberal's techniques, the only way a individual can 'go away' the middle classification is to alter into undesirable. They by no potential evaluate the possibility that a individual can go away the middle classification by potential of starting to be wealthier. So, think of on that for a 2nd. Now me? in my opinion? i do no longer provide a crap. In united statesa., the Land of risk the place no one is status in everyone's way or retaining everyone returned, if a individual is undesirable, they don't have everyone yet themselves accountable. there is not any oppressor. there is not any regulation or rule that limits somebody's potential. there is loose training and all forms of strategies for bigger training. no longer something, in this united states of america is status in everyone's way different than their very own loss of force, initiative and attempt. no longer something. So, i'm sorry. If somebody's 'undesirable' available, it is their very own fault. era. yet perhaps area of the rationalization they proceed to be this way is by using the fact we've the richest undesirable interior the international. The 'undesirable' in united statesa. are provided with a house, food, well-being care and an allowance sufficient for them to purchase a flat reveal screen television and a Disney holiday as quickly as a year. we've ALL seen them do it! So in line with danger, area of the priority is, we've made being undesirable a techniques too soft. So soft that it has exchange right into a existence variety. we've spent 17 trillion income this warfare on Poverty and as a proportion, we've the precise comparable variety of undesirable in united statesa. as we did fifty years in the past. i'm sorry. you could no longer help somebody in the event that they gained't help themselves.

Answer 5

Way before that Eisenhower,Nixon, Bush even Clinton. All of these politicians have misused our taxes for war and corporate welfare.Although Reagan put it very succinctly when he talked about welfare queens to justify cutting social entitlements.Clinton was no slouch with his Welfare reform act limiting benefits to 5 years or the RICO Amendment to expand capital punishment in Federal Cases.

Answer 6

You BBI. It was his doctrine of "trickle down economics", "I've got mine, you get yours, " and especially "Greed is good" as endorsed to this day bay the National Republican Party that has brought us to where we are today. The funny thing is that the poor and middle class still vote Republican, when their philosophy only benefits the very rich. Perhaps it's the lack of education in this country due to Republican spending cuts. I hope they (the Republicans) are very surprised this COMING November. Even the red states are beginning to figure out that their rhetoric is not working out for them.

Answer 7

Middle class? Have you seen what is happening with the poor and working class? http://faireconomy.org/research/wealth_charts.html

Answer 8

War on the middle class? Should I clean my guns?

Answer 9

War on the middle class???


I'm middle class and don't feel that any war is being waged against me.

No, I would disagree.

Answer 10

Nope. It began back around LBJ, when the Great Society somehow meant paying taxes to support those who refuse to support themselves.