Former Hostess Employees Bitter About Wage Cuts (fork lift operator- $11 an hour)

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179. who benefits from that kind of a definition?

I say the upper class does, therefore I reject that definition, that framework.

Somebody making $160,000 a year is not in the same class as somebody making $16,000. Anybody with any sense should be able to see that. Just try offering the $16,000 person a $160,000 a year job and see if he doesn't start dancing and whooping like one of those guys in the movie who just found gold.

But some people, apparently, like to call both of them "middle class". Especially the politicians. Then they can propose and promote and pass another "middle class tax cut", like, for example, the accursed payroll tax cut. A tax cut that gives $320 to the $16,000 person (who used to get $400 from the making work pay credit) and gives $2,200 to the $160,000 person (who used to get nothing from the making work pay credit).

But hey, it's an economic stimulus, so the $2,200 that the much richer guy gets is bound to trickle down to the $16,000 guy and to the unemployed. Class is definitely about income and status. Otherwise you are calling a self-employed barber who makes $18,000 a year, upper class, because he owns his means of production. Whereas that RN making $70,000 a year is working class.