Sir, I am not sure what you mean by saying that just because a person makes more money, they should not have to pay more taxes. This could mean one of two things: (1) If I make $250,000 and you make $25,000, we should each pay the same amount of income tax, or (2) Same income levels, and we should each pay the same percentage, let's say ten percent. I disagree with both, and I disagree particularly strongly with the first. There is a concept known as progressive taxation embedded in our tax code, and I agree with it. Simply put, it means that if one man earns $25,000 and another earns $250,000, maybe the lower wage earner should pay ten percent and the higher wage earner, who is more wealthy, should pay twenty percent. The idea embedded in this concept is that the wealthy can afford to pay a higher percentage.
Having read more of the posts, I have three additional thoughts. First, to the gentleman who thinks the rest of us are jealous of the gentleman who started this thread, let me assure you that as one who has an income well under 1/3 of the poster, I feel no jelousy at all. In fact, I feel sorry for the gentleman. He has a nice wife and three kids. I have no wife or children and I am in late middle age and have far less income than the gentleman. And despite this, he is posting to the world that he is extremely displeased about his taxes. With all he has to be thankful for, this is what consumes him. It's rather sad.
Second, at least one has posted the familiar trope, "Government doesn't create jobs; only the private sector creates jobs." Of all the nonsense floating around out there, this one tops them all. Go into any fire hall, police station, or public school, and tell the first employee you run into that the government doesn't create jobs. It's nonsense; the Government creates many jobs, including every one in the military we so admire. The facts are simple: the government creates some jobs, and the private sector creates more jobs.
Finally, this notion that lower personal income taxes would create more jobs is utter nonsense. Before I retired, I was a wage earner; I never created a job in my life. If my taxes were doubled, it might well reduce the amount of money I donate to charity or the amount I invest in stocks. On a macro scale, that might lower the amount donated to charities and might drive down stock prices, but the connection between either outcome and the employment level is quite attenuated. Here is what created jobs, or saved them, which is two sides of the same coin: the auto industry bailout, with the Big Three auto makers are paying back.