“.....where people blithely accept that 1% of the population shouldn’t complain about paying 40% of the taxes”
IMO, thats how we’ve wound up with an oligarchy...and 25yrs of Bush/Clinton dynasty....That 1% owns the government..that the rest of the country sold to them...
Centralization of practically all functions of government has made it easy for the lobbyist to buy the country.
Washington needs to be reduced to its Constitutional foundation:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."