New Tax Plan May Bring Shift In Burden
Poor Could Pay A Bigger Share

As the Bush administration draws up plans to simplify the tax system, it is also refining arguments for why it may be necessary to shift more of the tax load onto lower-income workers.
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Middle Class Squeeze

MYERS: But there may be a lot more to it than meets the eye. Some say the broadly middle class society we used to take for granted has unraveled—unraveled to a point where America is no longer the land of widespread economic & social opportunity we believe it to be. Even for a guy like David Wells.

KRUGMAN: We had a society 20 years ago, 30 years ago, in which the center of gravity was with the middle class.
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