Seems to me like taxes in this country is like cell phone reception in Rancho Santa Fe. Everyone wants the benefit of the cell tower and the reception it brings but no one wants to “pay” for it by putting the tower on their property. Taxes have to be paid by someone and it doesn’t hurt someone making 75K a year like it does someone making 25K a year. Of course most posters on this blog are in the first group so they complain about how unfair it is. Personally I’d rather earn more and pay the taxes than earn less and have less. Then again political views are often influenced by your parents and I had an affluent democrat for a mother who lived within her means, owns her house our right has zero debt and has assets/money in the bank and is now “working retired” collecting social security, retirement and a paycheck. My father is a broke republican who is still working at almost 80 years old and spent more than he earned his whole life. He has massive debts and can never retire. He jokes that “the longer I work the less I have to save for retirement”. Sad truth is he will die working, just as many boomers today.