Interesting. So, where does the money that is taken from the income of millions of Americans go?
It's deleted, essentially.
The primary (the only, these days) purpose of taxes is to reinforce the necessity of holding the default currency. You have to pay taxes with dollars and you have to pay taxes so you *have* to have dollars. At one time taxes were also used secondarily as a tool to rein in wealth inequality (upper brackets used to be 80% or more).
'Murica currently has reversed course on the secondary purpose of taxes and placed the lion's share of that burden on the working classes. Sure, a system like that decimates the middle class and grows the size of the poor folk but it's not concerned with those communities because the whole entire purpose is to funnel wealth upward, which it does rather well.
Our system doesn't want empowered educated citizens. It wants apathetic and/or frightened obedient workers. That's why everything from housing to food to health care is dependent on becoming a loyal cog of the capitalist machine. Regular everyday people are mere resources to be exploited, preferably willingly. People who love their cages and their chains not only don't cause problems they will violently attack anyone who doesn't behave in an acceptable fashion.
The slaves will gladly fight and die for their masters who don't care about them at all.
In many respects what we have now is neofeudalism; a few aristocrats and a couple of royalty with the vast majority of people being serfs and indentured servants.
Historically that arrangement never lasts forever and it doesn't take a formally-educated person to recognize that we're nearing the end of our run. The establishment has been too greedy for too long and now the whole thing is poised to crash down around their ears.
The sooner the better as far as I'm concerned.
