This is the question that vexes me so. Many years ago I wrote checks every week to my "employee units." One day all the little people came in thinking their taxes were too high. "The presnit cut all the taxes, it's on tv."Is there such a thing as an "Average Middle Class family" in this country anymore?
I had to explain that they weren't paying more taxes, they were paying FICA deductions, which really weren't taxes at all.
And lets face it, they weren't paying any more, money was just being borrowed from their checks and going into the Social Security Trust Fund.
It was a good thing really.
It was years later they figgered out Reagan was using that money to buy the transluscent goo he put on his hair to reflect light.
...by then, I was long gone.