"Less For Our Labor" Day?

From their speeches, you would think that the government was doing wonderful things to help workers.

But, in fact, with the average American spending more to fund government than to buy food, clothing, and shelter combined, the greatest impact the government has on those of us for whom it cares so much is through the huge gap it creates between the value of our productive contribution to others in the workplace and what we actually take home.

We tend to overlook how much the government takes from us before we get to see it.