I think you need to consider who is being taxed. I doubt very much that OP is part of the class of people who really should be paying more tax. Rather, they're concerned about their retirement assets. Is that a good outcome here if it applied to everyone?

You seem to have read some sort of political opinion into my post that is not actually there.

I was just making a joke about the outrage OP is showing, I wasn't making a judgment on whether they get taxed too much or too little.