Amusing, given that you're repeating deceitful rhetoric designed to be hostile to anyone except those already making a fairly fantastical amount of money. (The drive to defend those who are screwing the one repeating said rhetoric is common, though I still don't understand it.)
Paying for services you don't consume as a reason to consider one's tax burden "higher than it should be" is a meaningless red herring. I don't have kids at all, yet I pay for schools--I'm paying NaN% more for no value! Holy shit, that's a lot of % (or is it? I can't evaluate it). I don't use public transporation, but I'm paying for it. I am not rich, but I also don't use these services. You do not, however, see me complaining about it, and I do not attempt to handwave that into some claim that I am paying higher taxes than I "should be." (As it happens, I should be taxed higher. I would vote in favor of someone who wanted to tax me higher, should those in higher brackets be appropriately taxed as well. This will never happen, because screwing the middle class is the name of the game.)
Your implication that "the 1%" are in fact paying anything remotely close to an equitable sum is made so is left at best curious by the staggering wealth gap that simply continues to grow at an unsustainable pace within this country. If "the 1%" paid their fair share, that would not be happening. Yet it is. Res ipsa loquitur.
Amusing, given that you're repeating deceitful rhetoric designed to be hostile to anyone except those already making a fairly fantastical amount of money. (The drive to defend those who are screwing the one repeating said rhetoric is common, though I still don't understand it.)
Paying for services you don't consume as a reason to consider one's tax burden "higher than it should be" is a meaningless red herring. I don't have kids at all, yet I pay for schools--I'm paying NaN% more for no value! Holy shit, that's a lot of % (or is it? I can't evaluate it). I don't use public transporation, but I'm paying for it. I am not rich, but I also don't use these services. You do not, however, see me complaining about it, and I do not attempt to handwave that into some claim that I am paying higher taxes than I "should be." (As it happens, I should be taxed higher. I would vote in favor of someone who wanted to tax me higher, should those in higher brackets be appropriately taxed as well. This will never happen, because screwing the middle class is the name of the game.)
Your implication that "the 1%" are in fact paying anything remotely close to an equitable sum is made so is left at best curious by the staggering wealth gap that simply continues to grow at an unsustainable pace within this country. If "the 1%" paid their fair share, that would not be happening. Yet it is. Res ipsa loquitur.