That's what I paid and, everybody who works for a "Slave Market" minimum wage Labor Contractor Service such as Labor Ready, Apprentice, Manpower, Kelly... The "tax" is paid to a Non-Governmental Organization, and is paid before the Worker gets his check. I base the 83% figure on the fact that the workers are paid only 1/6th of what the Parasite Corporation gets for his "product". Under the various manifestations of the "Right To Get Screwed At Work" law, the workers aren't allowed to negotiate wages, working conditions, pensions or Insurance through the use of Collective Bargaining. We're supposed, instead, to go hat-in-hand and beg the employer for a slight fraction more of what is actually owed us. On an individual basis and, under the RTW law, the employer can cut your wages just as quickly as he "gives" them to you. They can take 5 times what we get, producing absolutely NOTHING themselves. We're not allowed to do what the Corporate Masters do, insist on a profit for our product. Nor, according to the laws as interpreted by their Tame Supreme Court, are we even allowed to break even. You can't go to King Soopers or Safeway and buy a $3 loaf of bread for only a dollar, insisting that that's all you'll pay them. If you leave the dollar and take the loaf, they'll call the Korporate Kontrolled Kops on you and have you arrested. And they call their TeaParty stooges, most of them the Stupid members of the Working Class, to defend their Corporate Masters from the "theft" of paying income tax. They have the government at every level in their service, coercing workers around the world to accept Slave Wages, at public expense, so every dime in their bark accounts is a Direct Government Subsidy. If the "peasants" rebel, like in Honduras, the U.S. Military will intervene, and ALWAYS on behalf of the Corporate Masters. Like their Death Squadsjust did "Gunmen have shot dead farm workers' leader Secundino Ruiz in Honduras." Gunmen paid and protected by the Pentagonistas. Whenever a soldier tells me how "lucky" I am to be here in America rather in the Banana Republics he was deployed to, TO MAKE SURE CONDITIONS NEVER CHANGE THERE, AND TO BACK UP THE GOON SQUADS OF HIS AND THEIR CORPORATE MASTERS I think of this. But, hey, TeaBags, other RepubliKlan sucks, be proud! You're trying your best to make sure your own families have to live under the same slavery. And it's only acknowledged as theft when the Corporations are required to pay a fraction of what they've stolen back to the people who stole it for them.