at least you only die once

got a very rude shock today when minz revealed the amount of income tax she has to pay to the u.s. government. i have always had the impression that deductions and being almost on the poverty line brought ones taxable income as a grad student down to a negligible amount, but apparently i was wrong. (either that or minz is the victim of a major swindle and needs to kill her tax advisor, like, now). how? already i've discovered that housing is going to cost me substantially more than i thought, and nowthis. go tax the billionaires more and leave us alone!