Middle-class Americans suffer in silence

President Barack Obama’s proposed tax on millionaires has restored the issue of ‘class warfare’ to the forefront of politics. The new tax plan follows a week of intense campaigning by the President for his jobs bill, and of considerable attention devoted to a Census Bureau finding that poverty rose to a 17-year high. Asking the wealthiest among us to pay more, and taking new steps to help the least well-off—the jobless and the poor—are good policy.

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