U.S. Middle Class nearly gone

[BenSkywalker]

I'm proud to live in a country where people are progressive.

Heh, this is rich- you know almost nothing at all about political science I take it, and are woefully ignorant of actual policies in the countries you are discussing it would appear. We'll get to that though

It also helps the economy by raising funds without the need for further inflation.

Increasing the standard of living for a body of people can only be accomplished by increasing productivity. Things that are being funded that are at a lower level of productivity than the segment that originally had said funds results in a net reduction in the standard of living for people. This is economic fact.

Basically you mean that you're a bunch of greedy bastards who could care less about people less fortunate than you.

Remember, you are proud of the country you live in, your words, not mine.

To hell with all of you not job right wing hacks down there.

You have no fucking clue what right wing actually means, or you have no fucking clue what the monetary policy of your government actually is, or you are just trolling.

They think they should have it all with their $200,000/year salaries.

I make an extra ~$250 a day when I need to travel to other locations to fix operational issues. If I did that every day for an entire year I still wouldn't be *close* to $200K a year.

Everyone else should just bow down as their slaves.

Slaves huh? Remember, you are proud of your government.

Then they cry that they have to pay 2% more tax so that poor person can have health care, transit, and an affordable place to live.

And here we go

In Canada a single mom making $45K a year will pay 29% in federal income taxes.

Now, what does a lawyer making $450K a year pay? How about 9%(down from 11%!). Really-

http://behindthenumbers.ca/2015/10/02/cl...loopholes/

How about multi billion dollar corporations, try 15%-

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonhartley/2...tax-rates/

So your country, which you are proud of, takes almost a third of the money from the working poor while taking less then 1/6th of corporate taxes and will soon be taking less than one tenth of people making $450K a year.

Progressive?

Bill O'Reily on a week long tequila bender wouldn't be capable of defending that level of right wing extremism- the kind you are proud of.

It is not remotely close to being in the league of 'progressive'- it is *INSANELY* right wing(are you familiar with the French revolution- your nations absurd pandering to corporations and the wealthy is as close to a text book definition of right wing as we have in the post industrial age).