Americans - How do you define Middle Class ? ?

Question

A lot of the rhetoric at the DNC seems to be directed to appeal to the Middle Class.Who are the Middle classes.Are they the same as white collar workers or is it blue collar or some other demographic ?

Answer 1

In my opinion, middle class is anyone ranging from 30k-75k Ussually blue collar, some lower paid white collar. I consider 60k-90k upper middle, and 100k= upper

Answer 2

They are a family of four making $ 56,000 U S dollars per year They make up most of Americans Does not matter if they are blue or white collar workers The rich are 5% of America and pay 70% of the Federal taxs The lower middle class and poor are 30% of America and pay no federal taxs The poor while paying no taxs get money from the federal gov each year foodstamps Med etc The hard pressed are the lower middle class You are considered poor if you are a family of 4 making less than $ 26,000 per year The brith rate in America is 2.1 per family that is break even for population growth

Canada has 1.5 and Mexico who knows

The rich are taxed under 50% of income the middle class around 30%

There is class warfair going on right now as the liberals are telling the middle class an poor ''we are going to tax the h**l out of the rich''

America is not a union country only about 20% of Americans are in a union Many here look at unions as communist

Answer 3

There are only three classes in America. The rich, The people who make them rich. And the folk who shovel the s*it. PS. A degree will not nesessarily get you out of shoveling s*it.

Answer 4

Great question.   Remove political party labels and ask the question is a grocery clerk in the middle class?   Maybe,  union grocery workers look upon themselves as "middle class."   And in rural America, they may be at the borderline of middle income in the local economy.   I think a lot of the rhetoric at the DNC is code for a new union era.  It is difficult to understand how anyone think they can return to the glory days of unions that grew from the post-WWII growth era.  The world has changed so dramatically that basic labor skills is not going to be a ticket to the middle class.  A college degree is not a ticket to a middle class income because there are so many dubious degrees.  Globalization demands that young people complete a marketable college major to assure some role in the middle class of the 21st century.  Or people can buy the rhetoric of the DNC that we all deserve a middle class existence.  I guess that is the question each person  will have to answer.   Hope the conclusion is based on realistic facts rather than sense of entitlement.  

Answer 5

the middle class is the working class who make minimum wage and are not wealthy idiots like the republicans we are the class that makes up most of america which is why we are the most appealed but the republicans only give tax cuts to the other wealthy which is y they suck