Your situation greatly changes your perspective. There are two simplified ways we look at income in the media in my opinion. There's the percentage of your income that goes to taxes, which the rich complain about. Then there's the percentage of income that goes to basic living expenses, which the poor complain about.

Depending on where you live, there is an amount you need to spend to sustain your life with food, shelter and transportation. In America it varies but is relatively uniform. This minimum amount won't necessarily buy you comfort but you can get by. These are requirements for living and aren't negotiable. Saying the poor have it easy when they concern themselves much more with survival is a pathetically ignorant and evil thing to say. People should be entitled to earn what they're worth. If they can get rich, that's great. But let's not equate taxing money from someone who makes 1000x more than what it costs to survive to taxing someone at a lower rate who closer to the minimum cost to survive. That just sounds selfish, insensitive and inhuman.