It's a thin line between too much and too little taxes.
So how much is "just right"?
Let's start with the 23% that gets skimmed right off the top of my paycheck, federal, state, SS, FICA... Then we have property taxes, sales tax, fuel tax, excise tax, vehicle registration taxes, internet service tax, telephone tax and any number of other mandated government "fees" we have to pay. It's been several years ago but I figured up that my real tax burden was better than 60% of my income, it hasn't gone down since then.
I don't think any rational citizen can deny that for a civil society to exist some level of taxation is needed to provide for services deemed essential (fire, police, military...) but year after year we see government bloat and mission creep of things like social services and welfare taking bigger and bigger bites of our piece of the pie. Government funding of things like Planned Parenthood and handouts to illegal immigrants and innumerable other things that do not serve the public good. Fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars continues and tends to grow year after year.
How much of what I work for should I be allowed to keep? For the value returned our tax burden is way too high.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-real-world-middle-class-tax-rate-75