There is substantial difference between income and wealth. I work in tech in the Bay Area, so I have good-to-great income, but I have not accumulated much wealth.

The people I think offend you are the (seemingly idle) rich who make most of their money on capital gains => very little taxes actually paid (and I'm sure there is a lot of history behind long term cap g, but from a regular wage worker perspective it can be hard to not perceive that as skewed, yes).

Pretty much all seriously wealthy people are of course in the top 20% income wise as well, but so are most people on this forum who have started their careers.

So I would call myself a producer. And I'm not getting the sense that I'm getting a dollars worth of return for every dollar spent on taxes.

So let's clean up the tax code (and let's stop using the word "fair" - nothing is ever fair in taxes, nor in death, certain as they may be), and make government more efficient and effective.

Then I'll be a little more excited about April 15.