I assure you, some of us have hated it since our first part time job and we saw what they were taking from us.

It's criminal in my opinion. They wonder why the economy is stagnant, well how about taxing money when it's used and not when it's earned. If you tax it when it's earned you didn't contribute anything to the economy by spending it. Now you have less money so you spend less and are more thrifty. It's a self fulfilling prophecy