The [the Republicans; hypertensive ol' Bob sometimes omits a word] want to send the country back into the dark ages.
ol' Bob should remember something.
A serf during the Dark Ages owed one-third of all that he produced, to his lord.
A slave in colonial America consumed one-half of all that he produced, the remainder for his master.
When thinking what chunks of money go for taxes, while we're not quite as badly off as the slaves had been in colonial America, I'm pretty sure that by now more than a third of all income goes for taxes (federal, state, local), and so in comparison, the Dark Ages don't seem so bad after all.