That is the type of BS answer that has screwed the pooch in our country for far too long. Remember his answer for voting purposes.
I remember an old TV show called “Sliders”. Hour heros would “slide” into alternate universers and land in an alternate US.
In one episode they landed in modern San Francisco in a world where there had been no revolutionary war and we were still a British colony. The main change was that we paid a whopping income tax rate of 70%.
But is it so “whopping”? If you add the various business taxes and fees rolled into the price on the things you buy, the fees, the sales tax, and the income tax, I think that might actually be pretty close to what we pay today in THIS world.