John and Jane Citizen are fed up with overtaxation, according to this organization. As proof, it points to a flurry of anti-tax ballot measures that passed in the November 1996 election. Citing the calculation that taxes devour 38 percent of the median household's income, Sepp says 25 percent would be more appropriate. Under our current system, he adds, if household health-care expenditures are combined with taxes, the burden becomes 46 percent. That's in the range of heavily taxed socialist countries where health care is covered by government.
Agreement stops there.
There are countless ways to alter our tax systems. We insist that fairness matters more than the amount of money raised, or the social goals furthered, at least that's what people told Roper in 1990. In other words, anybody but us. Foreign corporations within the United States are the perennial favorite target. Eighty percent of respondents to a 1993 Roper survey thought a tax increase on these firms should be seriously considered.