Simple ignorance. Ask a lefty question and get an uneducated and ignorant lefty answer.

“Americans are growing increasingly frustrated with our country’s Byzantine federal tax system, but not because we feel overtaxed.

Most Americans believe the biggest problem with taxes is that wealthy people don’t pay their fair share, according to poll results published Tuesday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.

The feeling of outrage over the privileged classes is growing, according to the poll results, which only confirm the widespread anger that has helped fuel this fall’s Occupy protests on Wall Street and nationwide.

Only a minority of Americans seem at all outraged by the taxes they pay themselves.

Among those surveyed, only 38 percent said they pay more than their “fair share” in federal taxes, compared with 55 percent who answered affirmatively in a similar 2000 poll. By contrast 52 percent said they pay “about the right amount” in taxes, up from 41 percent in 2003.

When asked what bothers them most about the federal tax system, only 11 percent cited the amount they pay in taxes. An overwhelming 57 percent cited the perception that wealthy people don’t pay their fare share, while 28 percent chose the complexity of the tax system.

Which just shows again that people in this survey are “uniformed”. Of course if the poller’s were doing a good poll they would have asked a question after educating the respondents to the fact that:

“On average, the wealthiest people in America pay a lot more taxes than the middle class or the poor, according to private and government data. They pay at a higher rate, and as a group, they contribute a much larger share of the overall taxes collected by the federal government.

The 10 percent of households with the highest incomes pay more than half of all federal taxes. They pay more than 70 percent of federal income taxes, according to the Congressional Budget Office.”

Most people I talk to don’t know this, or that millions of Americans, including some in the middle class – a whopping 46 percent – pay nothing in taxes.