rooster -- so (assuming for these that you are married/have a wife) -- you and/or your wife have passive investments in (e.g.) real estate the income/gains from which will now be taxed at a much lower rate? -- your and your wife's annual income is high enough so that at least some of your taxable income will fall in the top 37% bracket? -- your and your wife's net worth/the net value of what would become your estates is $22 million or greater?
if yes to all (and there are other wrinkles), then you are not middle class -- and if no to any (and again, there are other wrinkles), then, while you still may be more than just middle class, you will not be getting all the same benefits the really rich will be getting
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
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