Mr. Mickelson, are you trying to tell us something? Are you trying to lose your fanbase??

Phil Mickelson is beginning to sound like a one-percenter piece of shit.

After so many years of being The People's Champion -- the people's answer to The Corporate Whore, Tiger Woods, it sounds as if Phil has turned to the Dark Side.

Phil was speaking after an appearance at an early-season tournament, and basically put his foot in his mouth.

"If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate's 62, 63 percent," he said. "So I've got to make some decisions on what I'm going to do."

OK, Phil... Stop.

If you are seriously paying 62-63% of your income in taxes, there's several problems:

1) I am a believer in a maximum income.  You may well be running afoul of that situation.
2) (More likely)  Your accountant is either an incompetent yutz or is ripping you off of millions.

But here's the thing:

"There are going to be some drastic changes for me because I happen to be in that zone that has been targeted both federally and by the state and, you know, it doesn't work for me right now," he said. "So I'm going to have to make some changes."

Perhaps either you should simply get your ass off the Tour and give your spot to somebody else (having more money than you will probably ever need), or understand that, if the rich aren't forced to actually pay some semblance of taxes, they won't have their golf tournaments to go to.

Kind of hard to have a PGA Tour with rioting in every major US city due to austerity cuts.

Asshole.