[jorgem]

>> Don't the lower-middle classes get most of the benefit from government dollars?

I wonder how that could be determined. I'm curious to see graph of benefit-per-capita grouped by income brackets.

EDIT: This link is "kindof" it, but there is no way that I can see to break it down by income.

http://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/US_per_capita_spending.html

[yummyfajitas]

Another bit of data which is suggestive, but again not exactly the right thing, is consumption data by income bracket:

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ce/standard/2009/income.txt

The actual right data would be consumption+savings by income bracket, but I don't know where to get the savings data.