@cicerone imposter,
Quote:We're middle class, and we don't feel shafted by our government. Many countries pay much higher taxes.
Historically, the boom time for the United States of America was during the period of high taxes. I recall comedian Bob Hope saying that it was hardly worth him working, because most of his money went to the IRS.
The start of the decline, particularly for the middle class, was when Ronald Reagan embraced Milton Friedman's (now lambasted) free-market system of capitalism, and coined the term "trickle-down economics", which of course never happened.
It just ended the middle-class, and enslaved the working class. Tax cuts to the wealthy, handouts to corporate political donors, and slashing services and social programs to the poor.
It's not like you can't research all of this.
