The tax situation as it is now is literally untenable. The infamous 1% pays 40% of the taxes. (Which is why every time I see that “make the rich pay their share!” it slays me. Sure, it works for politicians to rally their base, as if the 1% are getting away with something, but….). 97.5% of all taxes are paid by the top 50% of earners, and the bottom 50% of earners pay the remaining 2.5%.

In short, you have nearly half the population with no real vested interest in keeping taxes low. It’s easy to manipulate people who think that the other half is “getting over on them.”

I can’t see this getting better, especially given the nearly violent divisions that are plaguing our society of late, until *all* citizens have some genuine, tangible, vested interest in how tax dollars are SPENT. (And I would also add, all this nonsense about “government money” is just that…nonsense. The government does not have money, period. Only taxpayers have money. Every penny that comes from “the government” is OPM–other people’s money, unless you’ve paid in more than you are getting out. [Like my social security. I’ll never live long enough to get back everything I paid in. Same thing happened to my Grandfather.]).

Anyway…it will never happen, surely not in my lifetime, but…it’s distressing to see how the tax code really shakes out. And the utter lack of accountability for all those WASTED tax dollars, too. (sigh).