Into an economic recovery a lot of americans who consider themselves middle class continue to struggle to pay their bills and save money for retirement or send theirs kids to school. And that struggle adds power to preliminary pledges to help people whose incomes have gone almost nowhere in years. Bear that in mind as you listen to Hillary Clinton speaking recently in iowa. We need a tax system that makes the wealthy pay more and does not tax the middle class. Im the only candidate running in either party who will tell you my goal, my pledge is to raise incomes not taxes on the middle class. And thats what i think we should be doing. Forget for a moment that president s have very little ability to raise incomes. Lets focus instead on clintons pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class. That involves defining who exactly is in the middle class. Clintons definition is one that barack obama used when he campaigned for president in 2008. Any family that makes more than or makes less tha
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