Out of Touch: Millionaire Hillary Struggles to Define Middle Class

Somewhere in the range from $0 to me?

9.29.2016

When you sit atop a $62 million net worth, it’s hard to see all the peons below. However, Hillary Clinton has reiterated throughout her campaign that she is going to really help out the middle class and not raise taxes on them. But when a reporter asked what income range she’s talking about, Clinton took the long way around with her answer.

Clinton was asked to define the middle class “numerically” and also “philosophically,” and so, she began there, touting it as the “social, economic engine of our country.” Also, it’s “a reflection of the success of the United States from the very beginning,” Clinton added.

She then struggled to nail down an income range like she was asked, saying the “middle class is a hard-to-define economic target.”

“The way I talk about it is to say we know what the median income in America is, but if you’re living in high-cost areas, if you have kids you’re trying to educate and send to college, if you face healthcare costs that are beyond the average; staying in and progressing up in the middle class takes more money in some parts of America than it does in others.”

Clinton stood by her pledge to not raise taxes on the middle class and said that means anyone making under $250,000. She likes that number because that’s what “President Obama had adhered to and something my husband adhered to.”

“The middle class is both real and aspiration,” Clinton concluded. “And I want to make sure that it remains strong and it gives people a sense of security and confidence and optimism about their futures.”

H/T Free Beacon

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