ok im not too knowledable on the bracketing of income and what not but pardon how basic my definition is: you know those people that live in the real nice neighborhoods and drive the lexi and m-b, bmw's etc, you know the neighborhood practically every town has. tax them more. the people that live in the "normal" houses with hondas and gm's etc that would be middle class, inner city housing would be my lower class. again i know that is extreme and dont take that very literally. similar response, let the mom and pop shops grow, expand into two mom and pop shops. i really don't know how to define the small business from the larger ones but maybe if i were to take a stab when you start getting involved with franchising your business, maybe 10, or 20 stores you can be considered middle business and then up from there to big business. again very basic and not very descriptive. didn't think about that, good comeback as to which i have no response. but you did make me think of another point to add: more research/funding towards developing alternative fuels to allow ourselves to rid our dependency from the middle eastern countries. honestly thats the stupidest thing that always gets me. i dont want to hear about what the senators are doing with our sports on sportscenter... well maybe there is some work being done and we just dont hear about it because it is blanketed by the war in iraq, obama's healthcare plan and michael jackson. but im tired of constantly seeing school disctricts threaten to have to cut extra curricular programs due to lack of funds and beg and pleed with the community to vote for their levi(y?) on the next ballot. also more funding towards fire departments. however, police on is a different matter. maybe because all i ever see them do is camp out in a speed trap when no less than one block away is a busy intersection where there are accidents happening due to red light runners. And no the answer is not red light cameras, that is a large waste of money from what i have read as the company who built those gets most of it. getting to be more state issues but: why regulate the speed so much on our highways with state troopers? how many accidents are there were speed was the culprit vs the in town cross traffic situations. less highway patrolling and more in town.