You’re actually proving my point about income inequality. The rise of excise taxes and “fees” is a regressive tax on low and middle income earners. You can also count the race to the botom in public education, where government spending cuts have forced tuitions to skyrocket.
Taxes have decreased for corporations and the wealthiest people in this country. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jun/29/barack-obama/barack-obama-says-tax-rates-are-lowest-1950s-ceos-/
If Mitt Romney is paying 14% tax on his carefully shielded income, there is something incredibly wrong with the system.
