At the federal level nominal rates are lower. Effective rates are a lateral move or slight change depending on your bracket. Unless you're rich enough that progressive taxes (e.g. income and property) dominate your tax burden (most 20yos are not this wealthy) overall tax burden in most places is way up due to the proliferation of regressive consumer taxes and government fees that are basically taxes in the past 70yr.

The above paragraph is a broad brush statement and does not apply to all jurisdictions and situations. The prior sentence shouldn't be needed but is.