We consider ourselves middle-class (should that be spelled clASS?), but very year we seem to lose more purchasing power and savings--all due to the increase in taxes. I recently calculated that I pay at least 16 taxes to various and sundry gummint collectors at every level. That amounts to "taxation without competent representation" and I am near to telling them all it is far too much to ask me to pay over 50% of my income to support so many useless gummint programs. Taxes have just put me out of business. "I'm mad as hell and I won't take it anymore!" Time for a national tea party! How come the Russians were smarter than we are and put in a flat tax that seems to be working well?
As a small businessman, I spent more than 12 days just preparing my data for the tax accountant who has to help me make some sense of the Tax Code
"Consider also how replacing onerous-filing income taxes with a never-file sales tax would promptly boom today’s dying economy -- promptly boom entrepreneurial enterprises, big-and-small businesses, the professions, the arts -- promptly boom the quality of life for everyone. Realize how lower-and-middle income classes -- those who most avidly demand wealth redistributions -- would benefit the most by eliminating earned-income taxation on all individuals and businesses. …Income taxation by nature destroys the future -- destroys job-and-wealth-creating earnings, savings, investments, capital, and the most-precious commodity -- time."