"Just months after a presidential campaign in which Barack Obama argued that he intended to make the wealthy pay their `fair share' of taxes, politicians across the country are scrambling to balance their budgets by focusing on higher-income earners. But in doing so they are also redefining downward who constitutes the wealthy. Upper-middle and even middle class taxpayers are finding out that when politicians say they are coming after the rich, they don't really mean just the rich."
Read more: 'First the Politicians Come After the Rich...' By Steven Malanga RealClearMarkets, April 01, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/d7p8hr
