A man in Van Nuys, California, holds a sign encouraging motorist to express their anger at IRS on their final day to file 2005 income taxes on April 17, 2006. | David McNew/Getty Images

Americans are getting crankier about paying taxes.

Most people don’t enjoy paying Uncle Sam, but for much of the 2000s and 2010s, a sizable percentage of Americans thought that the amount of federal taxes they paid was “about right,” according to Gallup . But recently, the share saying their taxes were “too high” has been climbing; last year, nearly 60 percent of Americans said they pay too much .

Call it the Great American Tax Revolt, or maybe the Third American Revolution . Whatever we label this anti-tax wave, its effects are already rippling out across the country. Republicans in red states are slashing property taxes, or threatening to eliminate them entirely.…