Tax Day

Cullen Hightower once said, "There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little -- and it's always somebody else."

Here's a chart that I made that graphs tax rates as a percentage of income versus income (up to $500k).
The red line is the federal income tax rate. The blue line is the rate for the sum of the federal income tax plus the Social Security tax (6.2% of up to $102k in income) plus the Medicare tax (1.45% of up to $102k in income) plus the employer's half of SS and FICA (7.65% of up to $102k in income). In other words, the red line is the tax rate for what is officially called the "income tax," and the blue line is the tax rate for actual tax based on income, excluding capital gains. Neither line takes into account deductions, loopholes, and cheats.