Wow, Ron Paul is amazing

Sounds great right? Helping the needy, taxing the scammers! What is wrong with this!? Middle class. Where's the line where someone like my father at 150k a year, considered rich, and when he's considered poor. Typically what happens is the middle class takes on the burden that people who make 10x their income, it's unproportional, while the subordinates could possibly be making more in net income than my father just because he's not considered "Upper middle class".

Tax tiers don't work like that, net income follows a piecewise curve that's always increasing, just not continuous. If your base income is $150,000 you will take a net of more than someone earning $100,000 - why? Because for the first $100,000 you earn, you pay the exact same amount of income tax as them. Then you get your 60-70% of the other $50,000, ending up still maybe $30,000 ahead.

Deductions can put specific cases out of order, depending which you grab, but the general trend will still be that earning more means you get more.

Of course, with rich people such as Romney paying less than 15% income tax, there's obviously an extent to which the ultra-rich pay less tax than the middle class. But straightening that out is pretty tough for the Senators, when half of them are using those same loopholes...