After all that the government decides it's your partner????????
Our farmer friend inherited when his dad died. They had worked the farm for over fifty years. Dairy farming 24/7 and 365. When the farmer sold off a piece of the land due to taxes, the IRS was at the closing and took just about all of the sale money.
You are writing that to perhaps the strongest anti-tax person on this forum. Taxation at all levels of government is so rapacious and out of control that one day I think we may not be able to keep anything we earn or acquire. What they don't outright admit to is a tax, they call a "fee," or a "fine." (They criminalize more and more behavior mostly to be able to collect fines.) They tack "fees" onto all sorts of things. Phone and utility bills, for example. Government greed is the worst.