" I only paid 15% on my long term capital gains last year. I paid a closer to 20% on my labor gains."

There's the problem right there.

The trust fund baby getting $55,000 in Wal-Mart dividends pays ZERO in federal taxes.

Meanwhile , the janitor who profits $55,000 from sweat of the brow labor owes over $10,000 in federal taxes.

This is a tax code written by people who don't know how to write tax codes.

"The trust fund baby getting $55,000 in Wal-Mart dividends pays ZERO in federal taxes."

To be fair, they have to deal with an outsized amount of paper cuts when opening those dividend checks.

It's brutal.

"They know what to write."

Exactly. The architects even admitted as much: they were out to hurt Unions, blue cities, and blue states ... especially Unions in blue cities in blue states!

They also (cynically) assumed that Democrats, when not getting a tax deduction, would stop donating to their favorite liberal causes. Meanwhile, Republicans would continue to tithe to their Church whether they got a deduction or not.

" Dividend income isn't taxed, I didn't know that."

Oh, it is, if/once it's added to other income, like wages or pensions, much like Social Security.

But the trust fund baby, getting $55,000 a year in Abbott labs dividends and no other income, pays zero federal taxes.

" What the rich people do, tell if this is right"

Frankly, I've never understood it. That person has to have some type of taxable income at some point, even if it's just money to pay back the loan.

Interest, wages, capital gains ... all taxable at a rich person's level ...

I'm clearly missing something.

" Obamacare, for example."

It barely passed.

M4A, which I was in favor of, would have been soundly defeated.

Why?

In addition to all those martialed against the ACA, the opposition would've added every single worker in a higher income bracket with better healthcare, telling them they'd be subject to a lesser health plan than they currently have ... which, sadly, was true.