Celebrate

[Alexander Trafford]

you're comparing a heavier income tax for the wealthy to plundering citizen's wealth by force? that's a stretch. And if you agree that the government needs to collect taxes to perform legitimate functions, which you said you do, then you would also have to agree that the government performs these tasks better when they have more money, that's just obvious. If the government can perform tasks for the people better with more money, then it'd be reasonable to assume that the people themselves would like for the government to have more money in which to carry out these legitimate tasks. And you'd also assume that the people with the greatest means to give money to the government should be made to pay a higher income tax, not only for their own benefit but for the benefit of all.

They're not pointing a gun at Bill Gates head and saying give me your money so i can save the poor! In a redistribution of wealth fashion. Rather it's the polar opposite, their taxing the rich more so they can perform tasks that will benefit everyone while still leaving the poor with a couple bucks in their pocket, so they can spend money and stimulate the economy.