Click here to read the Too Much weekly edition emailed to readers on May 30, 2011.

Inside this issue: The American middle class, concludes a new study from the ad industry’s top trade journal, has essentially become irrelevant. In a deeply unequal America, if you don’t make $200,000, you don’t matter . . . The Social Security shortfall vs. tax breaks for the rich . . . Inequality and the state fiscal crisis.