Your opinion is exactly why the Republicans lost in this election cycle.
You consider the significantly higher proposed tax rates are acceptable, whatever these rates might be for you, and you seem to have little ambition to use your smaller slice of remaining money for more than a semi-comfortable life.
Maybe you have no kids, maybe you don't even want to start a family. Maybe you have no aspiration to accumulate wealth for a comfortable retirement or buying a nice house or having the capital to start a business, as those possibilities are going to become further out of reach for most. Not entirely, of course, but significantly fewer will now be able to go those routes for personal happiness (the constitutional definition of "happiness," not the popular one of vapidness.)
To keep your satisfaction in context, you might tell us if you are an employee or (highly unlikely) an employer, as here lies the real differential between those who are going to be happy with more of the status quo and even higher taxation and regulatory levels, or not.
If you are a business owner facing costly government imposed health care mandates, vastly expanded regulatory burdens and significantly higher taxation rates, you might not be so quick to parrot the Democrat speaking points.
Since business owners find ways to cope with all of these imposed burdens by passing these costs of doing business to the consumer, who do you think actually pays for big government? You do, in the form of not only higher personal taxation but by inflated prices.
Some businesses, especially service businesses sensitive to a lack of market elasticity that comes with higher pricing are stopping full time employment. Right now we are seeing restaurants and other service businesses moving quickly to eliminate as many FT employees as possible. If you are in this line of work, look forward to a better than Europe 30 hour work week, or, more likely, a future 60 hour work week where you have the privilege of buying your own government menu of limited and cost controlled benefits.
The cost to the US will be more real poverty and less of the opportunity for happiness that comes from capitalism. This grand experiment of declining "good enough" government determined minimal "benefits" paid by those who remain productive is nothing new. It has always been the hallmark of other places that have chosen government socialism.
Hope you enjoy the ride, there is no safety net at the bottom!
Did Jesus want what you want to be happy or was he happy because he had what you can't find in things? You confuse happiness with ego contentment and that will be taken away.