"Wages" should be tax free. Income (which was originally supposed to be limited to capital gains, inheritance and the like) should be taxed and tariffs re-established.
Either that or a flat tax. Everybody pays ten percent, even the poor. That way they have skin in the game.
Vets should not have to pay taxes. They've paid.
Capital gains taxes diminish investment, which affects employment. Inheritance taxes are particularly iniquitous, since they transfer a family’s lifetime of accumulation to the government. What’s the government done to deserve what my parents worked for?
Of course, eliminating death taxes would make lots of estate-and-trusts lawyers and accountants go find honest work ...