We probably need to focus on the cost of government, not government taxation itself since we are now 100 years into this failed experiment.

If we could self-govern, we would have been doing so through the millenia. That being said, the cost of government has far exceeded the benefit in the United States and probably everywhere else. I will go out further on the limb and state that the value of my citizenship is depreciating as government gets bigger and more intrusive while continuing to fight endless wars.

Fathom that productive entrepreneurs must seek permission from regulators who produce virtually nothing.

It would have been a better system if production was not taxed at all and tax only consumption, but then Congress would really have to live within their means, something they have not been able to demonstrate.