Another way to think of it that I like.... aggregation:
So, with taxes equal to half the income (added all of the fees/taxes/excise/RE/and-on-and-on), say your work
life is 50 years.
You work 25 years for your own, your family’s welfare. And you work 25 years for government.
I believe in a 10% import tariff, a NRST(fair tax) and no income taxes and get ridiculed for it on Free Republic. However up to 1913 you kept ALL of your income.