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The theories of taxation and revenue generation are much too complex to boil down to a sentence or two. Everyone thinks they somehow earned a graduate degree in economics by watching C-Span and CNN.
Besides, the topic was "what was middle class?" Middle class is generally thought of as the 67% of the families that occupy the "middle" of the normal distribution for income. That means one standard deviation from the mean in each direction.
What is the mean income in your area? In Edmonton, for a family of three (like mine) it is about $45,000. I don't know the value of the standard deviation, but I think it's about $20,000. That makes the middle class range $25K to $65K.
This definition of course can be stretched to include both higher and lower income families, calling them upper-middle and lower-middle class.
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