[lbo-talk] Americans' class self-ID

[Jordan Hayes]

> I would guess that this definition of what income is the
> "middle" doesn't work in a national poll, since housing is
> almost everybody's biggest expense (at least everybody who
> works for a living).

And in whose interest is it to decrease the size of the middle class?

[ FWIW, I live in urban California and my largest expense is payroll and 
income taxes; housing isn't even close to being #1 ... ]

/jordan