"I just can't stop thinking about where all this outrage WAS in 2001-2009!" cb

Same place.
U.S. tax payers pay roughly half their income to various taxes and user fees.

Income tax is the prominent one. But it's not the only one. Income tax goes to both State & fed.
Then there's property tax, and school tax (they're taxing the same thing, real estate, but they tax it twice each year).
There's sales tax, highway tolls, and various others.
After all we pay to federal, State, and local governments, we're only left with roughly half of what we earn.

The only way we can increase our share of our own money from ~50% to ~80% is to shrink government's collective cut from ~50% down to ~20%.
I think it's a dandy idea.

"when the bigots of this world have been privileged for as long as they have, to them equality feels like discrimination." shiftless2