("B a r r y" wrote)
In truth, I'm married, we both have decent middle class jobs, and we
choose not to pay consumer interest, own a 7 foot TV, lease cars, etc...


Where does middle class start these days? $26,000?

I would like to see a system where we drop the bottom 18% off the charts,
and also drop the top 2% off the chart.

Now we'd have, IMHO, a better handle on what truly is (M)iddle (C)lass.

On my new list I would place it between 20% and 80%. (20% temporarily
broke - not poor g, [5% L-MC, 50% MC, 5% U-MC] and 20% wealthy)

20+5+50+5+20 = 100% of our new 80% list. :-)

I wonder where the present '18% income person/family' would start the new
list at, and where today's '98% income person/family' would top out at - on
the new list - income wise?


Montblack