taxes

When Mitt Romney was running for President in 2012, he stated that his income for 2011 was 2.4 million and he paid a whopping 13% in income taxes.  Well, my taxes always run at least 16% on less than 50,000.  We are being scammed and we have been getting scammed for years.  The middle class, what's left of it, and the working poor carry the weight of this entire country on it's backs.  There are no tax breaks for us.  There are no tax loopholes for us.  There is nothing but taxes.  And if you get job number 2 or three, it just ups the amount of taxes you are forced to pay.  And the illegals can file for earned income tax credits and child care credits.  We are already paying their free medical, schooling, food and on top of that we have to pay them EIC and child care.  We do indeed have a socialistic society--for the criminals.  The rest of us are so screwed.  There is no way to get ahead.  None at all.  And them we are told on top of that we need to save for a rainy day.  Well, if we do manage to save a little and we should earn $10.01 in interest, we pay taxes on that too.  I don't know about the rest of you, but my days are all rainy.  If you want to save, stick it in a cookie jar and don't tell anyone you have any money.  If you do let anyone know you have it, the government will find a way to take it from you.  And they wonder why we are so pissed off.  At this rate, I can't even afford to die.  This is just sad.  One has to laugh to keep from crying.