there is a problem with the taxation part.
Granted taxes are a nessary evil. We do need the police, fire departments, teachers, roads and on and on.
So far all of these are local government or state government.
Why do I need to give the federal government 30% or more of the money I make when state and local governments are the ones that have provided the civil services I need? Do I not pay local taxes? Do I not pay my workers who too pay local and state taxes? The more you tax me the higher I need to make the prices of my goods, till I can no longer sell them or need to cut wages or people paying taxes to pay for the local taxes on the property, the inventory taxes.
People get upset when we talk about a fair 40 to 50% margin (buying a product for $2 and selling it for $4) seems like a lot of profit but when you look that more than half will be eaten up in taxes (local, county, state, federal, payroll, sales, and use taxes like fuel, not to mention tolls and other fees like business license ect.) And now we have the war of the classes asking for more. 99.9999% is not enough for the liberals. Had the taxes been lowered prices could be lowered, wages can go up, more tax $ will be collected as more $ will move through the economy.