>I work a lot of hours and my payroll taxes are much higher than capital gains taxes--as Buffett and others have pointed out, that's what's unfair but it won't change as long as the people who get their income from capital gains have the most power to influence politics.

They only have that power because the rest of the country is disorganized/divided and un-unionized. There's more than us than there is of them. Ultimately they will cede this power at some point - the question is simply when.