After you file

You’ve been very helpful.  So I guess I am done and can file.  Wow, I made $26,000, barely enough to live on yet the government is taking $6000 of that.  I owe both Federal and WI (MT owes almost the exact amt I owe WI.). Damn, and to think I used to have a career and made real money!  How have I been able to sustain myself on a fourth of what I used to earn?