[sammyg2]

Wow, you guys must be using a different IRS rule book than I am.
Over the years my tax rate has gone up as my income went up.
The percentage kept going up, up, up, yet you think it is going the other direction. How come?

Besides, if you think the wealthy have it so easy, why don't you become wealthy? All you have to do is pay attention in school, get very good grades, go to a local community college for two years, transfer to a state run school with very good grades (working at night and on weekends to pay your bills), study a real subject and earn a degree that that does not have the word "liberal" or "arts" in it. Get a decent job and work hard to about 25 years until you are at the top of your game. No teaching, only full time jobs apply. For at least 10 of those 25 years take additional college courses at night so you can get another degree, maybe an MBA.
Make sure you set aside at least 12% of your gross income for those 25 years so you have something to rely on when you retire.
After all that you will be considered wealthy and you will have the privilege of paying twice as much in taxes as those who took the easy route.

if that's too much work or too hard or if you have a list of excuses why you can't do all those things, then just sit there and complain that it's not fair that someone who did all those things only pays most of your share and not all of it.