Redistribution of wealth means the rick shaking down the middle class for the benefit of the poor. The rich put their money in tax shelters. The rich pay the middle class through reported income making it impossible to evade the tax man. The idle poor couldn't be happier complaining about economic injustice.
High marginal rate income taxes are a tax on becoming rich, not on being rich. Those who have already made, or inherited, their money get to keep it. They also get to maintain their dominant position in society by making it much harder for others to move up and challenge them. This is the present situation in Europe, and it looks like we’re headed in the same direction.
Sad.