You are looking at the wrong table. Look at the next table instead and see just how high the US is relative to other countries.
The only thing we don't tax is goods, but that's to help lower income people - the same people you want to help.
Yes.
> shows only the relative percent of where taxes come from. It does not describe tax rates.
I know. But if the US is to raise rates they would raise them on Goods and Services, not on income because the tax is already very heavily skewed toward income.
And regardless of that, the breakdown alone shows that the US tax code is more progressive than other countries.
All the right politicians bleat about lowering taxes - you really can't, the rich are already paying for everything as it is now, we can hardly get more progressive (on income taxes at least). You can't lower taxes on the bottom 75%, it's just pandering. The left bleats about the well-off not paying their fair share, somehow paying for nearly everything isn't a fair share. They're both wrong as usual. More plausibly, to pay for ballooning entitlement costs, infrastructure, expanding healthcare, etc. taxes need to go up on everyone.