I work three jobs, four if you include volunteering at church for four hours every sunday... I havent had a day off in 7 days, and am not going to have another off for at least another 13 days. Sometimes I wonder why? I could just get paid by .gov to sit at home and do nothing, instead I go to work like a chump every day only so the government can take my money from me. I don't really have much to look forward to either, as I get older if I start making more money, they will just take more. My mother is in her late 50's and works 50+ hours a week as a consultant to medical offices. She pays over 50% of her income to taxes (she is "self-employed").
I don't make a ton of money, I might as well take the minimal cut in expendable cash and just live off the government dole. I work with a fellow who works 15-20 hours a week and lives with his girlfriend (who doesn't work) and child. The amount of money he is getting from his income taxes is ridiculous. He is getting back substantially more than he is paying in. It is blatant communism. The government is taking my money and giving it to him. If I don't do it they will lock me away, if I attempt to protest that, they will kill me. And the worst part is, I'm not really that much better off than him... we both live 1/2 mile from eachother in similar homes, drive cars of similar value, etc... I have a few more "toys" (my gun collection) than him, but other than that we are in almost identical situations, except I work 30 hours a week more than him and my wife works full time. I feel like I'm being punished for working a lot and not having kids before I am financially able.
I was listening to the Adam Carolla radio show and he was making a funny/true point. If you were paid cash by your job at the end of every week, then went outside and waiting by your car was a tax agent who insisted you give him 40% there would be riots in the street. Because they take it out of your check and you never see it, you don't really feel the impact of what is coming out. And to pay for what? Paying for senators' pet projects under the guise of "stimulus" packages? Paying to enforce pot and gun laws I don't give a crap about? Paying for people who don't want to work to keep the same standard of living as I do? So I can pay to have a government that has done nothing but grow and restrict people rights for decades?
Sorry for the negative post, usually I have a positive attitude about things, but I just looked at one of my checks and wanted to throw up when I saw how much they took.