What do you think Robert Reich means by middle class?

[ProSense]

Reobert Reich suggested

...expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit wage subsidy right up through the middle class, and cutting income and payroll taxes for everyone earning less than $80,000 a year – making up the lost revenues by raising the ceiling on Social Security payroll taxes and hiking marginal taxes on the rich.

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Here's the 2010 EITC eligibility:

No child - less than $13,460 (if married < $18,470)

One child - less than $35,535 (if married < $40,545)

Two children - less than $40,363 (if married < $45,373)

Three children - less than $43,352 (if married < $48,362)

Based on Reich's suggestion, the proposal could look something like this:

Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit wage subsidy right up through the middle class: single with no child - less than $30,000; married with three childern - less than $88,000

Cut income and payroll taxes for everyone earning less than $80,000 a year, making up the lost revenues by raising the ceiling on Social Security payroll taxes (to $200,000) and hiking marginal taxes on the rich.

Reich should have given some examples. What do you think he means by the "middle class"?

[pipoman]

1. The same Robert Reich who screwed labor by locking

tongues with the thugs and pushing through NAFTA & GATT?

[Citizen Worker]

4. In the last few years Reich has served up some well deserved criticism on tax policy and how the

economy is not addressing the needs of workers but he simply cannot bring himself to criticize the grossly oversold slave agreements otherwise known as "free" trade. He just can't bring himself to criticize something he so vigorously supported. He refuses to say that he made a mistake in spite of the fact there's a mountain of evidence pointing to the slave trade agreements as the linchpin in the downward spiral of the economy.

[pipoman]

5. I couldn't agree more

and I believe Gore's overwhelming support for the agreements are why he didn't win much of the South including Tennessee. He and Clinton wouldn't admit it either. In fact, Clinton blamed the assault weapons ban for Gore's failure to carry key labor states, I believe the AWB did have an effect, but far and away it was trade agreements which lost the traditional southern, blue collar Dems.

[Honeycombe8]

2. Cutting taxes for the non-rich and raising them on the rich? That won't get passed.

Not in this climate.

[OHdem10]

3. From about 35, K to about 70K

[4dsc]

6. Tax capital and not wages

that would real stir the pot.

[Mass]

7. What is your problem with this> I wished they would do that, or at least propose it

and show the GOP hypocrisy.

I guess he puts the middle class (or at least the part that needs some help) between $ 30,000 and $ 80,000. My guess is that, even if time are harder for those between $ 100K and $200K, they have more revenue to live and dont need the help as much.

[ProSense]

9. It's an good proposal.

It's likely he did mean up to $80,000.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. What do you think he means by 'married'?

Or by 'family'? Is he using the faith based Obama definitions which apply only to those approved by Warren/McClurkin Brand dogma?
Funny to me that you split hairs over 'middle class' while using all of that divisive exclusionary language without a thought. Breaks for marrieds only! And marriage for straights only! Family is only by marriage, and again, that's not for all minorities, just the ones the Traditional Church says are worthy.

[ProSense]

10. He didn't mention married. n/t

[Bluenorthwest]

11. You did, over and over again, around his proposals

So you do understand that when you use that terminology, it means that the law is basically bigoted, unfair, unjust and utterly discriminatory. Sure, that is the tax code.
Middle class for some means less than for others. We as a family are not allowed to file taxes as a family. If it were not for the bigotry in the tax code, we'd have savings and a home and such. Like our straight counterparts do. So when the majority starts whining about income levels and what's fair, I have to laugh. Fair? For some of us, fairness is out of the question. We are treated unfairly under the law.
The word married is in your OP over and over again. And it is a meaningless term of art.

[ProSense]

12. "What do you think he means by 'married'?"

He never mentioned "married." I have no idea what he thinks about marriage, which isn't the subject of the OP.