No BD. I'm arguing economics, you are arguing naive numbers. The reality is that Government's affect the economy. And Modern society functions much less efficiently when you don't have functions like Public Ed, Poverty reduction, Propoerty protection in the way of Pollution Regs etc.
So THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY to reduce the Purchasing Power of the middle class, is to cut government spending in these sorts of areas.
You are arguing that for some theoretical reason it is better to take home a slightly larger percentage of a Much much smaller salary (or a non-existant salary since unemployment also goes up) than to take home a slightly smaller percentage of a much larger and more secure income.
How that is "supporting the middle class" is beyond me.
They refute nothing. Because you don't factor into it
- Concomittant unemployment rates
- Inflation
- Purchasing Power of each dollar.
- Income Mobility rates
etc etc.
You assume - in the face of all historic evidence - that cutting government civilian sector programs will not adversely affect the economy. And that simply is not true.