Half the people in this country pay zero tax or have a negative tax via refundable tax credits that is welfare in another name. "

This is a common view of those who pay too much taxes, but taxes are only one metric of the cost of living and having been both rich and poor, I found poverty to be far more expensive.

There's an entire industry in America that profits off the lack of choice the poor have available. From healthcare system that is more expensive when you pay in cash because you can't afford insurance to payday loans at extortionary rates when a family member ends up on jail for being poor and they need to somehow come up with the 10% to bail them out. People who can't afford the monthly rent increases on their lot in their depreciating in value trailer. Lots that are increasingly owned by hedge funds because they know there is no fixed mortgage so they charge based on the fact that these people don't have the money to move their home.

We have any entire extraction system in America designed to pulverize the desperate for profit so Jamie Dimon can buy another yacht.

That does not take away from your tax burden which is no doubt too high, but that money is not going to someone in a trailer in winter getting hammered with increased propane costs in Texas because the local government decided to deregulate so you now face $7000 a week energy Bills in an ice storm when your yearly income is $20,000. Your tax money is not going to these people. It's going to ensure Goldman Sachs does not fail in the next financial crisis. It's financing the current and next overseas war the elite dream up to reward themselves for finding a new place on the map.

There is very little connection between the exorbitant taxes you pay and the crushing poverty the poor experience.

I often hear the rich complain that the poor envy them, but that has not been my experience. I find that most poor people admire the wealthy who have earned it. The poor hate the wealthy who directly profit of their misery. That's who they hate.