UCGal, so 2 police officers/nurses/teachers/fire fighters who want to do better for themselves by working overtime are no longer middle class. How is hurting those who actually have a drive to do better a fair thing? I don’t think anyone will disagree that $250k is not middle class and that they’re very well off. But these people I just listed above are far from rich, just very hard working people. Do you advocate they shouldn’t try and work so hard?