> The high taxes of 1950-2020 doesn't seem to have done much for making people happy. The interstate highway system for one. We have tons of “new” infrastructu

> The high taxes of 1950-2020 doesn't seem to have done much for making people happy. The interstate highway system for one. We have tons of “new” infrastructure that is expensive to maintain. Also - the military, healthcare and social security is where almost all of the federal budget goes. If you take social security “out” as basically an investment account then it’s nearly all healthcare and military. We spend more on the military than the next top 7 countries combined. We also have the highest cost healthcare per capita in the world and not even top 20 outcomes. Infrastructure that could change the trajectory of whole communities is almost a rounding error.