I didn’t feel guilty about anything. And I never felt I was paying too little. On the contrary, I was paying more than enough. I was just not getting screwed as thoroughly as my neighbor.
One of my points on this subject is that this is simply the state creating more class warfare and pitting citizens of different socioeconomic statuses against each other.
If they are screwing someone else, that’s OK as long as they don’t include me. Problem with that reasoning is, sooner or later I (or you) will be in the other group.
I don’t smoke, so I think it’s great to screw smokers. A smoker that doesn’t drink thinks it’s great to screw me because I drink. And so on, ad nauseum. It is not an accident that these taxaholics play us against each other while they merrily go on pissing away obscene amounts of all our money.
As the early 19th century cartoon was captioned: "Don't Tax You..., Don't Tax Me..., Tax the Fella Behind that Tree"! Actually, equivalents probably were expressed THOUSANDS of years ago!