This is what happens when the true tax burden is hidden from just half the voters of the United States:
It does not look very promising for the future
financial well-being of our offspring, does it?
TAXES
The APT hides the other half.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-George Bernard Shaw
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In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
-Voltaire (1764
It's like me in the restaurant: What do I care about extravagance if you're footing the bill? --- Walter Williams
The perfect formula for every growing government.
To remove perception of the tax burdens of the individual, is to remove the goad which assures accountability of government to the electorate. Federal tax rates are high and government grows ever larger because a majority of the electorate do not perceive proportionately the burden their demand for largesse imposes on the minority of citizens.
Liberty and freedom have a price, responsibility. If that price is avoided there are no brakes on the growth of government, the ultimate result is the end of freedom through creeping socialism.