I understand but again, be mindful that that haves a practical limit, it's not an unconstrained lineal tendency: the most you can humanly do is to increment your working schedule to be from monday to monday 12hs per day. Any increment beyond that will literally kill you, so taxes beyond that will progressively precarize the worker. By that point you are clearly living in North Korea so let's do as you said: let's fix things, so you are living in the USA, you have a minimum standard, so most you will do is to work up to 60hs a week in extreme cases. You will not work more than that so tax increments will start just eating your standard by that point, without you being able to work any more to compensate that. By that point working so much is meaningless so you start working less because you are not making it anyways, and that's what happens in real life.

It doesn't haves to. You don't need explicit taxes when you have implicit taxes, AKA the infinite money machine. Explicit tax increments are not a way for the government to get financed but a way to coerce and control the population. The explicit tax is a laughable fraction of what the government amasses from emission and future emission AKA debt, which is what goes into maintaining the massive bureaucracy and high neo-feudal elite.