Stop lying. No one in the US pays a 50% tax rate. The top marginal tax rate is 37%.

And the problem is tax cuts. Decreasing revenue without decreasing spending leads to a larger deficit. I can help you with the math if you need it. The ballooning (pre-Covid) deficit during the Trump administration can be traced directly to tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump

It goes higher when you include state taxes, local taxes, sales taxes, SSI taxes, unemployment insurance, SDI, gas taxes, property taxes, etc.

Also, some of the above are paid by both employer and employee, which is an accounting trick to make the taxpayer think he/she is paying less.

Most states have income tax too. CA's is 13%.

Indeed, we haven't had a "budget" in years. Now we have "spending bills" instead.

are you in Ontario?