Twitter’s noticed that taxes on almost every American have gone up following the fiscal-cliff deal. Here are the best responses to the increase:

Because those Hawaii vacations aren’t cheap. #WhyIsMyPaycheckLessThisWeek

— RedBrightandTrue (@RedBrightandTru) January 4, 2013

#WhyIsMyPaycheckLessThisWeekbecause Obama Phones and birth control are more important than reducing the debt.

— Gabriella Hoffman (@Gabby_Hoffman) January 4, 2013

#WhyIsMyPaycheckLessThisWeek So you can pay for Socialist Security benefits you’ll never get. Biggest Ponzi scheme ever invented.

— Jon Force (@jon_force) January 4, 2013

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#WhyIsMyPaycheckLessThisWeek Because big government comes with a price. Wait until you see your health insurance rates.

— Justin McCarthy (@jmac82) January 4, 2013

#WhyIsMyPaycheckLessThisWeek I voted for hope and change and all I got was this lousy paycheck.

— mrhawk (@mrhawk) January 4, 2013

Obama said he wouldn’t raise your taxes and then he raised your taxes #WhyIsMyPaycheckLessThisWeek

— Charlie Foxtrot (@frog_of_war) January 4, 2013

#WhyIsMyPaycheckLessThisWeek Because Congress avoided the fiscal cliff by driving the rest of us into a ditch.

— Conspiracy Quean (@ConspiracyQuean) January 4, 2013

#WhyisMyPaycheckLessThisWeek because elections have consequences…

— Charles Whitmore (@cwitmore) January 4, 2013

#WhyIsMyPaycheckLessThisWeek Hey, somebody has to pay for $12 billion a year for wind-energy subsidies.

— Don Crowe (@BigChinoDon) January 4, 2013

Because Hollywood and Green energy need breaks, #WhyIsMyPaycheckLessThisWeek

— Sean McNeilly (@TripMcNeilly) January 4, 2013

#WhyIsMyPaycheckLessThisWeek because Mitt Romney gave a woman cancer.

— WitteTweets (@WitteTweets) January 4, 2013