<p>Well, you could have looked at what it was in response to</p>
<p>@codychesnutt wrote “BUT clearly the middle class bears the biggest burden at expensive schools like Amherst - low income families can pay nothing and high income families can pay full freight with no real sacrifice to their spending or lifestyle” </p>
<p>He was clearly talking about the Amherst, where lower and mid-middle class pays nothing.
Thus, I stand by my statement above relative to Amherst. I meant the impacted (paying) part of the middle class.</p>
<p>However, in general terms (unrelated to Amherst), the upper middle class (which I meant) is not the largest, nor it uses the most services, nor should it carry the biggest burden in the US economy.</p>