The problem isn't under taxing. Taxes should not even be on the table unless the issue is freeing the tax slaves once and for all. Cutting off the freeloading is the ONLY thing that should be on the table at this point. That's what got us into this mess. The non employed by choice are outspending the employed, and it isn't even their money they're doing it with.
Using more of our wages to cover up the problem for another month isn't going to fix anything. The wise politician would target the disease - welfare freeloading - and the symptoms would go away by themselves.
Instead of sharing the wealth, why not share the WORK and allow the wealth to share itself?
The disease includes welfare freeloading, it isn't limited there.
The disease includes foreign aid, gratuitous spending on pork and idiotic feel good projects, bloated civil service, attempting to manage local and state problems from Washington, lack of oversight of congressional and executive office salaries and spending on their own perks (note, this includes presidential vacations and first wookie trips and the car covers she wears as well as using govt franking privilege for purely political correspondence (including sending naughty pic's via official email), and tax dollar's spent in support of unions, ....want me to go on?
This is an excellent and too infrequently mentioned point. Women having to work to support a family, thanks to taxes, means the kids are left to day care or whatever and the family unit and society pay as a whole. Everyone ultimately suffers so we can be tax slaves for the federal government. Women working was sold to us as women's lib - at the cost of a woman's primary duty - to take care of the young. Look where it has got us. Trillions for the politicians to play with while they blame everybody and everything for the problems THEY have created.
These people in D.C. are demons. The ones who are not get shoved aside - like Sarah.