Did not mean to "star" your comment.  Meant to reply.  Surely you know that middle class taxes, as you put it, pay for hugely expensive wars, bases, and other military; plus federal highways, bridges, and other infrastructure; and management of national resources and workplace and food safety, just to name a very few of the types of programs other than what you are calling "socialism."  (And what I would call something else.). Please grant readers some basic knowledge of what their taxes pay for.  Thanks.