So I know there have been plenty of threads about this subject before, but I didn't ever read posts about this small of a transaction requiring a "tax".

I went to make a 0.01 BTC donation to an app developer, when the Bitcoin client told me that the transaction was "too big" and required a 0.01 BTC fee to make it work.  Is this correct?  Why am I being charged 100% of my transaction as a fee?  Could somebody help me out please?