If only you could appreciate that it was

* founded by wealthy landowners interested in protecting their interests

* that 5% tax wasn't going towards US infrastructure

* 200+ years have passed since, and we've gone past horse-drawn carriages

And then proceeded to exceed that 5% tax rate as it built the society we all live in today. Only since the 80s have things gotten really perverse and has this extremist libretarianism gotten any real traction.

And what of appreciating that? Was that 5% taxation being spent on US infrastructure?

No, it's appreciating society where everyone puts in according to their ability to make something we can all enjoy.

I'm fine with people who are unable to contribute putting less in, I'm not fine with people who exploit the system - and before some BS about welfare queens gets injected... I also care about scale, the amount of missed revenue from corporate taxes far outweighs how people below the poverty line are able to abuse the system - right now it even seems like they're getting the sharp end of the stick to support the top earners - rather than the squeeze being on the middle class.

You're clearly missing the parents point; These are not figurative "taxes people owe", but literal, per the 2018 law, lowered corporate taxes, lowered personal taxes, what people owe.