My 1% tax raise has resulted in higher withholding and less take home pay.
Correction, my 1% salary raise has increased my withholding such that I have less take home pay.
The Current Occupant wants to help the middle class, get the hell out of the way.
There is “help” aplenty, but most of it is going to be of the “self-help” variety, not the ministrations of some bureaucrat. Just take away the foolish rules and strictures put on the daily lives of individuals, and they shall do a remarkable job of rolling up their sleeves, going to work, and making something of themselves, as long as they are allowed to keep a little bit of it along the way.
Raising already onerous tax rates has the most perverse effect of LOWERING revenues.