But can the same be said for the working class and the poor?
That rule is being relaxed on wealthier families, but remains in tact for the working class who are migrating to Beijing and Shanghai in search of employment.
If asking a millionaire to pay the same tax rate as a plumber makes me a class warrior, a warrior for the working class, I will accept that.
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If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a janitor makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor.
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This will demonstrate to middle income voters that true, free-market principles can, indeed, work for the working class, and that they are willing to fight for these principles regardless of class concerns.
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Beginning life in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries as modest subdivisions for the working class, these much-coveted neighbourhoods are now home to the city's bourgeois-bohemian, but nevertheless retain an authentic atmosphere that evokes a Paris of days gone by.
Edwards, at one point, in one of the debates - that he and Obama had a deep belief in change, and that Edwards, according to Obama, was a voice for the working class and he wants to be that working-class voice.
Rick Santorum has a lot going for him, most especially a deep identification with and caring for the working class, for the displaced and unempowered people who once worked in steel mills and factories and have seen it all go away.
The end result of these Reagan Republican tax policies is that federal income taxes were abolished for the poor and working class, and almost abolished for the middle class.
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It is economic growth that is the key to prosperity and the good life for the middle class, working people, and the poor.
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As in the UK, for many working class industrial communities in the grip of hard times, football is a release, a passion, verging on a religion.
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For some in the working class here--the random cab driver, small-time actor, bellhop--Slim's fat-cat wealth is reason enough for suspicion.
These are the breaks for "folks who make less" that have been adopted over the last 30 years to bring us to the point where federal income taxes have been abolished for the working poor and what some people term the working class, and almost abolished them for the middle class.
Young professionals are catapulting off the corporate ship that has characterized the working class for a couple hundred centuries into the cold dark waters of entrepreneurship, hoping to find paradise or at least freedom from the course they seem set for.
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In the process, they do not have to give up preserving paradise, but focus as well on creating economic opportunity for the emerging working and middle class majority.
Economic growth and prosperity for working people and the middle class does not stem from increased spending and consumption.
And we're not going to rest until our economy is working again for the middle class, and for all Americans.
And all of this takes place as Obama competes fiercely with Hillary Clinton for the support of working and middle-class white men, who are likely to be pivotal in the April 22nd Pennsylvania primary.
"If you want someone who will fight for you and who will fight for the middle-class families and working men and women who are sick and tired of having their parents and grandparents pay higher prices for prescription drugs than anybody else, then I want to fight for you, " he said.
But the U.S. economy is producing squat in the way of working-class jobs, and inflation-adjusted income for working people has been sliding mostly sideways for the better part of 30 years.
That will not only be good for women in working class America, it will be good for the women, and the men we share our lives with the world over.
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And are you going to elect somebody who has consistently fought for middle-class, working-class interests, as you heard the President say, or somebody who campaigns as an independent and has voted 96 percent of the time with Republicans in the state Senate?
Edwards points to past administrations' free-trade policies as the cause of many problems for working class Americans.
And the net effect of it all is that the economy is not working for middle-class families.
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For generations, it was the great American working class, the great American middle class that made our economy the envy of the world.
Many Democrats are convinced that he is a shoo-in for the vice-presidency: a working-class southern boy made good who balances Mr Kerry's patrician gravitas with a generous measure of charm.
But we need a stable, consistent pot of money so that we can utilize moneys like we have RCAs, and build housing for working-class people in the city of Trenton, and provide homeownership opportunities.
On a sweltering afternoon in March, Eoin Slavin, an executive at Rio-based development firm Landis, wandered the mostly forgotten working-class neighborhoods in the shadow of the elevated highway searching for prospects.
This partnership is especially critical to building ladders of opportunity for those working hard to make it into the middle class and stay in the middle class.
Mr Cruddas has earned a reputation as an independent thinker, and talks a lot about the need for the party to reconnect with its traditional working-class supporters.
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