True; we've had a progressive tax code for decades, but it's now runaway open season on success. There is NO WAY earning more should equate to higher tax bites (percentage-wise) and be "equal treatment under the law" in my book.
Worse yet is the handing out of this rapeage of high earners to the low-life that recieve 4th generation government assistane from it, and, even are "rebated" tax dollars they never paid!
Yes, you are absolutely right. As soon as the tax rate is graduated based on income, it would would seem to me unconstitutional, because at that point, the government is violating the 14th amendment.
This is also why the whole auto bailout is unconstitutional as well. The government is using tax dollars paid by auto workers in the south and preferentially treating the citizens that work in the Detroit auto industry, at the expense of those that work in the southern factories. The government has no constitutional authority or right to pick sides in an industry.