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Nah, our tax structure is all kinds of fucked up and the middle class pays the most in tax. You don't start getting to skip out on taxes until you make 50x what the average college graduate earns.
100k + is not middle class.
Do you have anything to back that up?
Here's my link: The salary you need to be considered middle class in every U.S. state—it’s close to $200,000 in 2 of them. In every single state 100k is middle class.
I don't need my own you just proved my point, 100k is not middle class.
i believe your source even makes note that the American "middle class" is considered working class just about everywhere else.
And in which state is 100k more than double the median income? Did you actually look at the article, or did you hit the second paragraph and assume?
That's not how most of the world defines middle class because it's a useless stat that does not reflect societal issues via economics.
I looked at the article.
Did you?
Okay, I thought we were talking about the US tax structure.
The us tax structure doesn't involve classes. There is no irs definition of middle class because that simply isn't what they do.