We have two governing parties whose basic idea of what government is for is to shift money from us to them and thier friends first and foremost.
I don't "feel" taken by things like a billion spent on E-Health with little or nothing to show for it. I know I was taken. And, with these incremental shifts away from a graduated income tax to regressive flat taxes is just another way of government facilitated theft.
And we embrace it, making poor people poorer all the time, and exacerbating the very behavoirs the tax system is suposedly rectifying before our very eyes.