I'll try to keep this brief, but my wife is going through a health scare. Test results and course of treatment may take weeks to find out. In the mean time I've been looking at what this may mean if the worst happens.

As part of that I happened to look at the US tax tables. The system is geared to give the traditionalists an advantage. God forbid I end up a widower because to add insult to injury I will also find myself sliding into the next tax bracket. Uncle Sam will make sure that one way or the other I will still have to continue paying for her psychopathic daughter's parasitic lifestyle.