Taxes to support social programs really aren't what's pecking us to death, it's regulations and attendant compliance costs that keep businesses from growing and hiring and banks from lending.
I keep wanting to give you a break and skip replying to you in favor of replying to someone else, but I keep finding opinions in your commentary which I regard as incorrect or objectionable.
We spent 21 trillion dollars on the "War on Poverty", and that's just in counted Federal expenditures. The cost to society of the Crime, and WORSE, the election of Democrats since 1964, is nearly incalculable.
We have an estimated 100 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities and an admitted 20 trillion dollar Debt.
Our problem doesn't begin with regulations and easy money, our problems began with irrational thinking in Washington, especially as regards Federal spending and debt.
A huge component of the output of this nation feeds those elite parasites who make their living off of Washington D.C. All they want to do is keep their own gravy trains chugging.