i make almost 200k a year, and i pay more in taxes than your entire salary. i pay nearly a 50% rate overall, and that's not even including all the other bullshit like property taxes and consumption taxes. it's impossible to get ahead as a middle class individual. the closer you get to escaping suffering, the harder they tax you. the scaling tax brackets only exist to keep us all poor. the richest people are able to circumvent it. 200k isn't even well off anymore with the absurd inflation and cost of living. i live on ~25k a year and still feel like i'm never getting ahead.
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