> I think an effective tax rate north of 40% is getting in the danger zone.
I think it varies mostly depending on the services you get for it and the percieved values of it. If you get higher education, healthcare and very social safety net possible then you tolerate a higher tax level, presumably.
If the tax is percieved as being spent on things you don't agree with (some random war etc) then it's harder to accept.
> It's very difficult to rationalize that every 60 minutes I work, ~30 minutes of that work product is appropriated by government.
If you consider that money to be appropriated then obviously there is a political problem. The money isn't spent on the services you need or want, or it's (seems to you at least) a lot of it is wasted. But there is no point discussing an absolute limit of fairness without discussing which tax paid services you would like to cut in order to lower taxes. Taxes could be 90% or 99% and there would be nothing inherently unfair about it - it would just proably be a very inefficient society.
I think it varies mostly depending on the services you get for it and the percieved values of it. If you get higher education, healthcare and very social safety net possible then you tolerate a higher tax level, presumably.
If the tax is percieved as being spent on things you don't agree with (some random war etc) then it's harder to accept.
> It's very difficult to rationalize that every 60 minutes I work, ~30 minutes of that work product is appropriated by government.
If you consider that money to be appropriated then obviously there is a political problem. The money isn't spent on the services you need or want, or it's (seems to you at least) a lot of it is wasted. But there is no point discussing an absolute limit of fairness without discussing which tax paid services you would like to cut in order to lower taxes. Taxes could be 90% or 99% and there would be nothing inherently unfair about it - it would just proably be a very inefficient society.