re: #7 goddamnedfrank
We have Lizards here, prominent ones, who went their entire adult working lives not understanding how progressive tiered tax brackets work, in spite of being actual taxpayers themselves.
If a family earning $50k per year gets a 3% raise, a family earning 6 times as much, $300k per year, has to get a 3.5% raise to end up with a raise 6 times as large after taxes.
It is dreadfully unfair.