[steve-b]

Consider the case of the rich taxpayer versus the middle-class taxpayer. The rich taxpayer pays far more in property taxes and income taxes than does the middle-class taxpayer. Yet they both consume about the same amount of taxpayer funded infrastructure and government services.

Actually, that's simply not true. For example, police protection of property is worth ten times as much to a millionaire than it is to someone who has $100k, because the former has ten times as much to lose if theft is not suppressed.

That said, the current tax system is far too socialistically "progressive" (which is a problem unrelated to the issue that spawned this thread).

[Scourge of God]

Actually, that's simply not true. For example, police protection of property is worth ten times as much to a millionaire than it is to someone who has $100k, because the former has ten times as much to lose if theft is not suppressed.

That’s a good attempt at a point. But a cop driving by the rich guys house for ten minutes generates the exact same costs as a cop driving by a poor persons house for ten minutes.

And you failed entirely to answer the infrastructure argument.

That said, the current tax system is far too socialistically "progressive" (which is a problem unrelated to the issue that spawned this thread).

I’ll agree with you here.