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On the lower end of the income bracket, there was a lot of upset over the state of the economy.

While his salary may have only just kept us securely in the middle-class bracket, it was enough to allow my mom to stay home from the time my sister was born, in 1989, until I was in first grade, in 1999.

Until then, any kind of pay rise could drag you into a higher tax bracket, or see a greater proportion of your income taxed than would otherwise be expected.

“They’re in a different tax bracket. And they’ve forgotten the sacrifices that were made by their parents, by their grandparents, by their great-grandparents. Nobody leaves their homeland because it’s great. People leave their homeland because they can’t make a life.”

But humor has changed in the internet age, and even if she is now basically uncancelable, Griffin has softened her touch accordingly, acknowledging that she is part of the tax bracket she lampoons.