Seriously.

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Because 10% of my income is 5,700 and I barely make ends meet as it is.

10% of Bill Gates income would still leave him room to make hundreds of people's ends meet.

I see nothing wrong with that.

Damn it! I hate math. So you make 57,000 dollars a year? Why is it you are 'barely making ends meet'?

10% of mine is 2500 and I do just fine. But that's beside the point, it's not based on your lifestyle, just your income. So what if Bill Gates has billions left after his 10%? So what if you have $51,300 after your taxes. So what if I have $22,500.

We all paid an equal percentile of our income. We earn what we earn.

Do you have anything better than that? I'm not feeling sorry for you or jealous of Bill.

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10% of my income is more money than a friend of mine (with 2 kids) makes in a year.

See above.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/busine...oblem.html

The hard step in figuring your tax bill is to compute your taxable income...

There's the first problem. No "adjusted" gross income, just Gross. That's it.