I failed you, my audience, please do not go away :(

Although it was fun to hate the government and pretend my financial life was like a video game, it turns out the system is actually fair.

I was wrong about this post:
http://moneyconversations.blogspot.com/2008/03/gaming-taxable-income.html

As evidence by these other sites:

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Common/Taxes/2007TaxBrackets.aspx

http://taxes.about.com/od/2008taxes/qt/2008_tax_rates.htm

There may be other taxes or "phase outs" that you can game, but the savings would only be minimal.