Even if your pretty tales were accurate commander, being a "half-slave" is better than being an actual slave, bought and sold as property. Every citizen in the Federation has a vote and every citizen, even your mythical "half-slave", has the opportunity to make a better life for themselves regardless of which social caste they are born into. They may even rise to the highest political office if they so desire and if they so apply themselves. Yes we may have our share of bureaucracy, and yes, we may have some corruption within the government but in the Federation we, the citizens, have the power to change our leaders if they do not measure up, without them having to stab each other in the back, literally.
You don't get it, do you? I lived in the Federation. I PAID those taxes. Don't say it isn't accurate because I lived it.
Moreover, you don't seem to be very good at math. Every single working citizen in the Federation pays exorbitant taxes averaging out to about 50% of their income, not even counting things like taxes on their assets (If you don't understand the difference between income and assets, I can enlighten you, you Fed types never were too bright, your brains fried by your virtual realities), such as property taxes, and even estate taxes, also known as being taxed for dying. Very few Imperials are slaves, whereas very few Federals are not taxed to death (I wonder who, could it be the corporate sponsors that put Halsey into office?)
Yeah, the Fed loves their damn taxes, and you are powerless to stop it, which makes you a slave. You work for free, which makes you a slave. And your votes are meaningless in a system we all know is rigged by your corporations that run your government, and monopolize your markets, cutting out any real opportunity for social climbing through trade and business. The minute you try, as Icarus, to fly too close to the sun, you will fall, because the corporations are the real power in the Federation. In the Empire, we have a free market where we have true meritocracy. Yes, we have social classes, and you can move between them if you prove yourself worthy. Unlike in the Fed, where you maneuver through what limited range you have by sucking the cocks of the corporations.
How about you get rid of Halsey? She is hated by almost your entire population at 16% approval.
Go on, use your vote to unseat her. And when you do? Oh, you don't like Hudson? Too bad, the corporations and the Navy of your "peaceful" Federation, whose exorbitant budget has made them fatter than a holiday pig, do.
