The government doesn’t want to eliminate the middle class. There might be some people in government who don’t give a shit that the middle class is being squeezed, and they don’t care about the long term. They are short sighted and greedy just like so many fat cats in business.
The middle class is the engine of a good and healthy economy and prosperous nation. The United States of America used to be the shining example of this economic theory, but so many in the US seem to have forgotten how that works, or don’t have the integrity to care.
Plenty of people in the US government still understand how that works, and the ideals of our nation are to have a large middle class, we just don’t accomplish it as well as one would hope. Some years we do better than others, it goes in trends.
It is STUNNING to me that so many Americans don’t understand that runaway capitalism and taxation policy that allows the super rich to get richer and the middle class to struggle more will slowly destroy America is not corrected. I believe in capitalism, but too much power and money is concentrated in “one” place. Too many monopolies and oligopolies and attacks on basic education and unsafe neighborhoods, it’s depressing to witness it.
Make bunches of money, but then what, so we have the super rich and they have poverty all around them? Is that how they want to live? It’s really shortsighted to screw the middle class. Most people with half a brain know it.