I know I shouldn't be surprised by this sort of thing, but it still amazes me that so many people have no fucking idea what a marginal tax rate is or how it works.
@petebrown Barring an Upton Sinclair quote-worthy scenario, it seems to be a failure of both our educational system (it was not until my 20s, after however many years of economics and political science classes, that my dad finally explained it to me) and our soundbite-driven media.