80% of Americans will experience poverty at some point in their life

More taxation doesn't fix the underlying problem; it would fix things for a couple years at most before the government readjusted based on the enhanced income, which would make us worse off than before. Inefficient doesn't even scratch the surface, because that would imply that government has at least SOME form of efficiency. There are so many examples of them throwing billions of dollars away for no reason, it's insane. Here's one; a guy that my parents both "worked" with for 20 years has probably made around 10 million off of the system by himself in his lifetime, using loopholes in the law like everyone else. He has a mansion, a wife that makes 7 digits, and he makes high 6. He is in a union. He works ONE WEEK PER TWO YEARS and makes 90% of his salary off of unemployment for the remaining 103 weeks, because of his union. He keeps all of his benefits on his "vacation", because of his union. His company has no choice but to allow him to return one week per two years (unemployment would expire one week later), because of his union.

Is this fair? I hope not. Is this common? Yes. In fact, almost every engineer at their company, ALL of the companies in that district, that are in unions, follow that exact same model. Again, this is only a single example, not the most wasteful or the least, that our government does.