Dragonlady
Designing Woman
I was a teenager in the 1950s,
That was when we really had a middle class.
And the country was so much happier.
The American Middle Class was created by the unions and by Roosevelt's "New Deal" which heavily taxed the wealthy, and gave tax breaks to the working class and homeowners.
Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party gutted the New Deal, and rewrote the US tax code to favour the wealthy. Then Reagan attacked the Air Traffic Controllers Union and the assault on the union movement destroyed unions. Reagan said all workers would get a raise when the unions were gone. Workers are still waiting for that raise.
Reagan said that wealth would "trickle down" to the workers from their bosses. What happened is that all of the wealth "trickled up" to the richest Americans and corporations.
And still you vote Republican.