are you serious. the complaint is not about how much you get paid, its the taxes you get ripped for..
you should be able to achieve whatever your skill, acumen, and value is worth. be it 100k or 450k. the more valuable you are you should not be automatically lumbered with excessive taxes just cos there is some arbratrary line that says over 200k = 47%. i mean what is the point pushing hard to get a better education, training, bust your ass for hours just to creep into 47% territory.. its a joke