Ditto that.
My wife is an RN with pre-tax income of about $125K/year.
We pay LOTS of taxes.
We are NOT wealthy.
More smoke and mirror gibs me dats for folk who pay next to nothing in taxes, overall.
Screwed again, just like the “No taxes on Social Security” BS.
Amen.
My wife and I have done well. I would say we’re “comfortable”, not wealthy, but nobody handed it to us.
But damn, man. For the last 25 years now... it feels like *everything* from *everybody* is just set up to screw us, tax-wise.
We don’t need the government’s *help* — we just want a reality where we aren’t the beast of burden constantly paying more and more taxes to help the ‘less fortunate’ below us.
Yeah, I’m very much a capitalist and I very much believe in personal responsibility — but from *both sides now*, it just feels like we’re the forgotten beast of burden, expected to pay ever more taxes with no benefit.