Because, in the end, the Middle Class will take it up the pooper. Fifty percent of the citizens don't even see it coming (because "the rich" are going to get hit).
Replace "the Rich" with "the Jews" and you get a feeling about where the cleansing will end. It will just expand to other groups, down to about $75K/hr because the "mean" family of four makes about $48K/yr.
Every 4 years the democrats have to offer their base some kind of new freebie, or the base won't bother to get out of bed to vote. That's how we got to the spending crises we're in today.
Yes, the democrats will always need more money, and they'll steal it from anyone they can. No freebie = no votes. No votes = no power. No power = no luxurious lifestyle and opportunity to be come rich through self serving legislation.
It's never been about "The American people." They simply use us as slaves to enrich themselves. Have you ever heard of a politician who did NOT retire as a multimillionaire?
I have come to the exact conclusion Zuben. I post on facebook and last night asked a person (unkown to me) if he had bought his brown shirts yet and if he broken any windows. I was waiting for a response and I was going to use just this very sentence. I mentioned that the hate towards the wealthy smacks of the Stalin and Nazism. Thank you for making this point.