The Government Tapeworm

there is a point at which government loses money by raising tax rates, and that point is not far from where we are now.

An academic study found that a tax increase of just 1% of GDP causes a recession and then a permanent loss of 1.84% of GDP compared to what it would have been without the tax increase.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/the_government_tapeworm.html