The problem with conservatives and libertarians arguing tax policy, is that they argue in hypotheticals or "ideals".
Here's the reality. Our society costs ass tons of money. Tons and tons of it. And there's no way for us to just stop spending money on the society as it is now. No way.
Currently, the lower, middle, and upper middle class citizens pay a pretty premium amount of money that they earn because they only earn money through wage and salary, which is easily taxed.
The wealthy pay little to no taxes on their wealth because they use numerous loopholes, like paying a token salary of 50k and then buying anything they want on company dollar and writing it off as a business expense.
THIS IS THE REALITY. THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING. THIS IS NOT FANTASY LAND.
So what needs to happen to reduce the tax burden on the middle class is that we need the wealthy paying more. The problem is, conservatives and libertarian fuckwads like to argue in a hypothetical and imagined world where absolute freedom is a must. The problem with libertarian ideology is that its economic policies only work when you have a society that is built around libertarianism. Our current late capitalism system is not compatible with libertarian ideals at all. You can sit there and preach about how libertarianism is wonderful and all, but it would not work in our framework. You want to be against taxes? Give us a good reason. "It removes individual freedoms" is not a good reason. One because people who are taxed still have freedoms, two because the police, fire, disaster relief, and the rest of government is going to continue functioning.
You want to see mass societal collapse? Stop paying government to operate. The US will turn into Somalia. Somalia is the libertarian wet dream. No laws. People just doing what they want. But nobody wants that. We want to live in a society with laws, rules, protections, order, safety. That all costs money.
Shut the fuck up with your whole libertarian utopia. It's no more obtainable than communist utopia. They're both dreams for kids who don't know how real economics work.