The political leaders talking like they want to improve economy but everything they do is taking down people can see that they want to add more taxes well it's a high pressiure on people.
Off course goverment knows exacly that higher taxes killing but keep going, perhaps we have reached to the point when something got be sacraficed in this case small company owners or self employers will take the hardest hit but some how some ways big corporations just keep earning and still pay little or no taxes.
It seems like they really want to kill economy perhaps it's time to let air out and pop the bubble to restart everything again from the down point seems like that's what the goverments are doing now.
High taxes have its pros and cons but for example, in Europe, where you leave almost half of your salary in taxes, the problem is that there is a huge inequity. Lower class doesn't pay much taxes and gets good benefits but middle class pay up to 40% taxes while the richest class pays no more than 45%.
Short-term, high taxes like the one I described above, are okay because it will help poor people to step up and become a middle class but the problem is that it doesn't translate that well in real life. In real life, such an attitude makes poor people more lazy because they know that if they earn more, they'll have to work much more and they'll get very little surplus in their monthly salary, so it simply doesn't worth the extra effort.