text:  So the happy medium is somewhere, probably not in the middle, but maybe in the first one-third, where you tax at a rate about what it is now or lower. And the minute you get to 50% where a working man or woman says, hey, 50 cents or 55 cents of every dollar I make goes to taxes, so why would I go and work extra hard when more than half of what I make is going away to the government? That's what the Democrats and the liberals don't seem to understand.