Yes, the average American works 4 to 5 months just to pay his or her taxes...
It’s a wonderful system I am sure our Founding Fathers had in mind...
“The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.”
Jefferson Davis
You are confusing the issue.
I do not claim we have the best of all possible systems, or that it is one the Founders would approve of.
I’m saying other nations, in general, have greater competitive problems than we do.
In a race (or any other competition) how fast you can run is not relevant, it only matters whether you can run faster than the other runners.
In this case, just about all the other runners have even greater problems with these issues than we do. For example, just about all the other advanced economies take a greater proportion of earnings in taxes than the US does.
I found it fascinating that the only example the author could come up with was Ireland.
Run for the hills! The Irish juggernaut will soon destroy the US economy!