To ensure long-term solvency, this requires anyone making over $250,000 to pay the normal social security tax on their upper income.

Most of our saving nowadays is done in the upper incomes, so that "the rich get richer."

Health care and a budget with tax increases on upper incomes may have been too much to take on in one Congress.

Not so, and they are now much more visible, especially in upper incomes and higher levels of employment.

"Competition is good for upper income and business, and will lead to better service," she said.

One Senate proposal defines upper income as those families that earn more than $100,000 a year.

People are now saying that since the upper income can escape taxes, why not make it available to everyone?

One definition of upper income covers families that earn more than $100,000 a year.

However, he does not mention that over the same period upper incomes have enjoyed a sharp increase in their share of pretax income.

"And what housing is in the area is middle and upper income."