Every dollar taken from a business by the government to hire another Democrat for the Department Of Cat Grooming is a dollar that can’t be used to keep that company competitive with businesses from overseas.
Probably as a consequence of a shallow understanding of the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, townhall.com writers are evidently functionally clueless that Justice John Marshall had officially clarified limits to Congress's power to lay taxes.
More specifically, as mentioned elsewhere on this message board, Justice Marshall had indicated that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The key question to ask concerning the federal government's budget is how much does it cost to operate the armed forces and deliver mail?
The bottom line concerning constitutionally indefensible federal taxes is the following imo. I'm inclined to blame tyrannically high federal taxes on business taxpayers themselves, as opposed to on corrupt federal lawmakers. This is because business owners are evidently not taking the responsibility to research Congress's limited power to lay taxes; constitutionally ignorant taxpayers can lay in the bed that they've made for themselves.