I just finished my Federal taxes for 2012 .....

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60. you make a lot of assumptions

as I said - I work for the government. I did not say the federal government. I mentioned GS-12 because those people make enough money, IMO, to be rich.

Also, with an IRA - anybody can create one of those - they are private retirement accounts, subsidized by the federal government. I put $6,000 in my account this year and therefore got to deduct that amount on line 32 of form 1040. I also got a $200 credit from line 50.

I said I have been working for 27 years, I did not say I was doing it for the same employer. I was not lucky enough to get a good job right out of college and stick with it.

Okay, actually I was. I was a GS-7 potential 12 working for the military industrial complex helping to create weapons of mass destruction - until I quit after a year.

You dividing the working class between unskilled and skilled seems kinda telling to me. You expect somebody running their tail off to be grateful for their semi-decent wages, while apparently the skilled worker who sits at a desk pushing papers around deserves their much higher pay. And I better not dare call such a person "rich". In fact, I should pay union dues to support my solidarity with those much higher paid workers.

From where I sit, the AFLCIO seems mostly about getting much higher wages for other people and doing next to nothing for me. Tom Brady can pay them union dues. There's a guy getting union benefits, but what the heck, I am supposed to be happy and pay for the benefits that supposedly trickle down to me from a union member like Tom Brady.