Filed my income tax return today.

[opebo]

But the point, memphis, is that the system is highly regressive - you are paying that ridiculously high sales tax and 'payroll tax', while the rich get away with virtually no taxes.  You should be paying less, and they more, to ameliorate the tremendously destabilizing forces of capitalism - that is, if we want to keep the current system of oppression functioning 'well'.

[opebo]

...the estate tax may be my biggest pet peeve ever. The threshold should be far, far lower with much higher rates if capitalism is to work at all.

Well there are several models which can 'work', depends on the balance or strategy of oppression.  The current model relies mostly on the whip, and very little on the carrot.  Unless you mean 'work' for the toilers in which case, you might as well ask if the slaughterhouse is working efficiently for the cows.