You earn that in a country that provides security from today's marauding Huns, keeps SLOC open, provides/maintains highways, funds high risk/high leverage technology so companies can reap the benefits, etc., etc., but essentially you do not want to pay for those. At least not via those taxes--you would rather fund them in a way more advantageous to you. Or via magic.
We understand.
1) If we shut the borders there will be no marauding huns.
2) Nothing wrong with govt providing highways. And I think funding some tech is not so terrible.
3) What eats the fed tax dollars? Social programs and huge military budget. I would prefer to eliminate the first and decrease the 2nd. Also want to cut fed staff. Starting with IRS.
4) What eats State and Local tax dollars? Govt workforce with their salaries, pensions and benefits. Especially public school teachers and their unions. I would love to see huge cuts their as well.
Universal Sales tax would be OK with me.
Go with 10% and let the fed/states/local divvy it up.
Maybe a very low flat tax. Less than 5%.
So people keep 85% of what they earn. Like Hong Kong.
That would be reasonable to me.