Most Americans only paid property taxes on their land. And only one parent had to work to support the family, and so the other parent could spend quality time raising the children. Back then they even had enough money to give to charity. We had less crime, and less poverty. So now, in most families, BOTH parents are forced to work full time.
Some people even have to work two jobs, in order to make up for the money the government takes away.
Less time spent with our kids Less time to raise our kids right. Less time to read with them, to play with them, to teach them right from wrong. So now, with less money, many of these overworked parents have no choice but to send their children to a failing public school, with gangs and drugs, with no discipline, and no safety. But the socialists say that's just fine. The public school will teach them about homosexuality, and diversity training, and feminism, and globalism, and how patriotism is evil, and guns are evil, and self- defense is evil, and how the government will take care of them forever.