"You are participating in the mythology of 'we all take care of ourselves and we don't depend on gov'mint handouts'."

That's the part I interpreted as "sticking it to the man". And I suppose its not just a burden on the "poor" we're classified as middle class between myself and Xander's income we make decent money.

But your tax bracket isn't determined by the ratio of what we pay in bills, housing and etc compared to what we bring home. I'm not saying I'm completely against taxes or anything, but I do worry that we'll be affected by them as there's not a lot of play in our budget.

I guess my over all point is, money's tight and the tax has to be exactly right for me to feel I can really support it.