If 19th century slave owners had possessed the equivalent of the IRS, social security numbers and payroll withholding, their slaves could have been put out to work for wages instead of toiling directly in the fields. Partisans of big government give the impression that our labor and our incomes belong to them. On the other hand, a Nobel Prize was won by the author of a best-seller called The Road to Serfdom, Frederick Hayek. Still, I would avoid overstatement. In political argument, understatement is sometimes more effective than exaggeration.
Most people know they are taxed too much.