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Tax brackets for the “well off”

So I started a new job in sales recently, going on 4 months now. I got in at the very worst possible time for my kind of work(holidays) all while being blind-sided by the company selling itself to a much larger co. so it's been extremely slow going. While things have been slow I've been living off of my savings. Now that my savings has nearly dwindled to nothing I'm just receiving a check for a project that took much longer than expected. For those two months of work on the one project I was payed in the ballpark of 4k. To make a long story much shorter, Here's the kicker. The tax brackets I fell into was determined as if my check was payed for the last two weeks of work and that I made that much every two weeks. (I haven't made a check in 4 months working)…


So I started a new job in sales recently, going on 4 months now. I got in at the very worst possible time for my kind of work(holidays) all while being blind-sided by the company selling itself to a much larger co. so it's been extremely slow going. While things have been slow I've been living off of my savings. Now that my savings has nearly dwindled to nothing I'm just receiving a check for a project that took much longer than expected. For those two months of work on the one project I was payed in the ballpark of 4k. 

To make a long story much shorter, Here's the kicker. The tax brackets I fell into was determined as if my check was payed for the last two weeks of work and that I made that much every two weeks. (I haven't made a check in 4 months working) So They took 25% of the 4k($1,000) from a guy that's barely making it.

Should this be okay? I don't mind paying my fair share but this just seems ridiculous..  Any thoughts or related stories?

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