If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.
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Whether you're a Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, it is clear that we've got big problems that we need to address, starting with making our economy more competitive so that we can create more good-paying jobs for the middle class.
We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.
We can't just cut our way to prosperity. Even as we look for ways to reduce deficits over the long term, we must grow the economy in a way that strengthens the middle class and everyone willing to work hard to get into it.
The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.
Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.
A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.
Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II.
The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.
The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.