In some things there can be no compromise. A new tax always starts out small so it will be voted in. The federal income tax has soared as high as 94% in the highest tax bracket at one time in its history. It is the tax adopted by Marx & Engels in their “Communist Manifesto”. It is a forced redistribution of the wealth by the state from people who have earned it to people who have not earned it. This happens through various government benefits, subsidies & grants. If private citizens engaged in this system of legalized plunder, they would go to jail. Socialist leaning politicians can buy votes by promising government benefits to people who vote for them that the other guy has to pay for. They say the other guy needs to pay his fair share which is never high enough.
https://nccs.net/1996-03-answers-to-americas-tax-problems