I am more worried about local taxes anyway...........

I am now paying 10K a year in property taxes, half of that is for our school district. It's so out of hand its not even funny.

I like this one

The point isn't that you'll work around the clock to retire faster, it's that, if you need $X to retire, you will have to work more years to retire at all. Higher taxes = more work, in that case.

Now I'm not saying that's a good thing! I personally want to retire sooner rather than later. But again, to say that higher income taxes automatically = less work just ignores human nature IMO. Sometimes higher taxes will => less work, but sometimes higher taxes will => more work.