In between the two there is also the middle point, Point M.
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Those middle class tax cuts would be an extension of 30 years of Reagan Republican tax policy only cutting federal income taxes on the middle class, to the point where the middle 20% of income earners by 2009 paid only a negligible portion of total federal income taxes.
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The usually out-of-touch nature of middle management scores a point where it is traditionally mocked in TV comedy.
Is there really no one in a position of authority who understands the importance of our political and moral voice at this potential turning point in Middle East history?
The Economist recently defined middle class as the point where people have roughly a third of their income left for discretionary spending after paying for basic food and shelter.
And my point is the middle class has sacrificed enough over the last few decades.
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In fact, the two examples which buck the trend - the two body systems which do clearly deteriorate in middle age - make my point for me.
It would be desirable if the Middle East reached a political turning point similar to the points in history when Asian democracy and Latin American democracy blossomed and spread rapidly.
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Their point is that the middle classes may get more now from the state than they got 20 years ago, but they have usually had to shell out more taxes to pay for those extra benefits.
More and more working class and lower middle class people will see no point in saving through the government's voluntary pension schemes: savings cannot be extended down the income scale by clever tax vehicles, but only by reform of the welfare state to make saving worthwhile.
If you are wealthy to the point of having left the middle class in your rear view mirror, I can appreciate your frustration.
Richard Meinertzhagen, who served as an intelligence officer in wartime and post-World War I Mandatory Palestine, made this point clearly in his memoir Middle East Diary.
Social scientists point out that in urban middle class families, there now seems to be a reversal of the old trend, with a female children being preferred.
Asked to rate their personal position on a ten-point scale of satisfaction, middle-class respondents are far more likely to put themselves near the top than are poor ones.
When it was very, very hot in the middle of the day there was not point in being out, and you could actually use that period to get some sleep so you needed less sleep at night.
Opinion polls conducted by the respected Merdeka Centre (the latest were for June) gave the prime minister an approval rating of 64%, down from the high point of his popularity in the middle of 2010.
President Harry Truman came to exactly that point when he fired MacArthur in the middle of the Korean War.
It could reach this point, he asserted, by the middle of next year.
And at this point, what are the expectations for Middle East peace?
The news, and so I grew up - there was a point in my life, like in middle school, where I just wanted to fit in and I just didn't want to be an Arab because I thought, you know, it was a terrible thing.
So ... if we get to the point where there is a conviction and sentencing, the judge would have the discretion at that point to give multiple consecutive sentences, and the limits on the judge at that point are one-third of the middle term, which would be an additional two years.
Diana Farrell, who is now a member of America's National Economic Council but until recently worked for McKinsey, a consultancy that has spent a lot of time studying the middle classes, reckons they begin at roughly the point where people have a third of their income left for discretionary spending after providing for basic food and shelter.
At the same time, some megacities in the low and middle-income world already seem to have reached a point of saturation.
"I thought Connecticut did a tremendous job in terms of getting into the middle and getting the ball out to the 3-point shooters, " Boeheim said.
At the other end De Dea saved superbly from point blank range as Dempsey charged through the middle of United's defence while Bale again went close with another shot that took a nick off Ferdinand.
McAfee.com defaults to a middle "filter" security level that is an excellent starting point for most users.
The key takeaway is that middle class America is disgusted with the financial markets to the point where their expectations, for the first time in decades, have no correlation with the reality of the economic situation.
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