The GD income tax

I've just spent the last few hours entering data about last year's financial transactions only to find out that I'd made a mistake - even though the program 'Quicken' indicated it was responding as I expected. All this of course is to satisfy the IRS's presumption of guilt, in the event they decide to take a look at me. It's a damned yearly chore, and months of anxiety, just to prove that I'm allowed to keep an extra thousand dollars of my own. My taxable income last year was ... 10k less than the mean. Living in Los Angeles, this is a mean figure indeed, and yet, the Federal Gov. wants/demands my help. The industry that's built on the idiotic and corrupt taxation of the people is enormous and growing in good times or bad. Of course I sleep better at night knowing that those damn rich people are paying a higher percentage than little ole' me. Right?