President Barack Obama worked to frame his final years in office Tuesday as a time of national recovery from unpopular wars and deep recession, striving now to help a middle class left behind by an otherwise growing economy. “It has been, and still is, a hard time for many,” he said in his second-to-last State of the Union address. “But tonight, we turn the page.” He drew a broad portrait of a liberal economic program that would take billions from the wealthiest Americans and use it to finance a long list of programs for the working and middle classes. “Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well?” Obama asked a joint session of Congress gathered in the Capitol where he took office exactly six years earlier. “Or will we commit ourselves to an economy that generates rising incomes and chances for everyone who makes the effort?”/Tribune News Service. More here. (AP photo)

Question: Do you approve of President Obama's plan to bolster the middle class by taxing the rich?