Although it depends on where the money is going (my city spends it on welfare, solving social problems, fixing shitty neighboorhoods and increasing culture and my country spends it on the War On Afghans), I have no problem with taxas itself.
After all, the people in your country made a choice of voting for Bush, thus flushing the economy down the drain and spending an awful lot of money on an over-ambitious war. So if that is what most people would like at least 25% of what they earn being spend on, so be it.