Tax levels are much, much, higher today than they were under the original vision of income taxes passed a little more than a century ago.
When you think about how all pervasive government has become it's quite staggering. It's in every single element of our entire lives. In some areas well over half the population will either by employed by government or is dependent on its handouts.
I'm sure if you'd shown that to the founding fathers they'd fucking puke.
It's gone way too far to roll back but having respect and prudence for public money would no doubt save vast amounts, let alone collecting it from the corporations exploiting the things government provides and weaselling out of paying their dues. Won't happen though.
The sad thing about the government employing tons of people is the reason that politicians do it. They made government so big so they can keep saying that the economy keeps growing. Cause if you spend tons of money to prop up the economy, by employing tons of people (and then these people owning homes, buying groceries, going to bars, etc) then the economy is going to be better then if you didn't.
Just for a moment I'm disregarding the people that are on welfare or any sort of handout.
But think about -- we as a society rely on the US to employ all of these people or we'd be fucked. Because if you cut all these jobs businesses would fail (cant go to the local pizza place if you got fired, or the local movie theater, etc) So even if you don't directly rely on the government funding (as an employee or welfare recipient -- you still rely on the government in someway.
