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  *REALLY* Focus on Helping Boost the Middle Class

  Put more focus into middle class Americans. I feel that the middle class is the backbone of the USA and we're getting beat down financially. Help us so we can contuinue to help others with all the taxes we pay. Otherwise, I'm afraid that soon, there will be NO middle class. Once there is a strong middle class again, the economy will get better. By the way, I've been here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/StrongMiddleClass/ ...more »

  Put more focus into middle class Americans. I feel that the middle class is the backbone of the USA and we're getting beat down financially. Help us so we can contuinue to help others with all the taxes we pay. Otherwise, I'm afraid that soon, there will be NO middle class. Once there is a strong middle class again, the economy will get better.

  By the way, I've been here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/StrongMiddleClass/ . I've put my two cents in. But I don't see anything coming from that that would protect the middle class from extinction ~ as it is heading now.

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  Eliminate the Alternate Minimum Tax for under $1M earners

  As it is, the AMT is hitting middle class taxpayers who are seriously hurting with the recession and widespread unemployment. Telling a middle class earner she won't get a tax credit for installing energy efficient windows or buying an energy efficient car is just plain punitive. If you make over $1M, OK, you have to pay something no matter how good your lawyers are. Otherwise, eliminate this bad tax.

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  Support our Middle Class

  The strongest point in our history in terms of innovation and trade was when we had a strong middle class. Independent innovators had the capital to try out ideas and start their own companies. The middle class has shrank over time, and money has shifted to a few ultra-wealthy. When you're trying to put food on the table, it's impossible to get the time and resources together to innovate. The best trade policy is ...more »

  The strongest point in our history in terms of innovation and trade was when we had a strong middle class. Independent innovators had the capital to try out ideas and start their own companies. The middle class has shrank over time, and money has shifted to a few ultra-wealthy. When you're trying to put food on the table, it's impossible to get the time and resources together to innovate.

  The best trade policy is to close tax loopholes for the very rich. Raise taxes on the rich while decreasing taxes on the middle class, increase funding for universities and grants for innovation.

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