Show me one example where middle class Americans have earnings "take away", where the government isn't involved./edit/
I suppose the government would get involved if/when the impoverished and marginalized decide to organize wealth redistribution in your neighborhood. You won't hear complaints about taxes then.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
