You are so right but Congress has the ability and bully pulpit to make it look as though they are looking out for us when in effect they are robbing us blind with taxes. Their insatiable appetite to tax is only exceeded by American ignorance.
They don't just rob us and that's the end of it.. They use that money to further abuse us. It's like they have a key to your house. Once they've scoped out your lifestyle they make duplicate keys and pass them out to several alphabet agencies headed by their fraudster cronies.
The slave master takes citizens money so he can flog them evermore. Those tax dollars are used for things like passing environmental laws that limit or prohibit full use of private property. The government doesn't compensate the property owner by paying fair market value for their loss.
The FDA uses tax dollars to run miles of red tape so that a drug that has for years been successfully used in Europe is stalled for several years in the FDA's approval process. When approval is finally announced at a press conference the FDA proudly states that the "new" drug will save fourteen thousand American lives a year. Doesn't that mean that the FDA killed fourteen thousand people a year?
And on and on it goes...
I’ve long believed that the oil companies and gas stations should post the price of a gallon of gas on the pumps AND post the taxes on every gallon separately...
“OK, that’ll be $2 per gallon. Plus $1.10 in taxes PER GALLON, of course. Don’t like that 30% tax? Sorry, talk to your representative. Your total is $75, please pull ahead.”