Great points made in your post #8.
Seriously, I believe it is un-American (there ... I said it!) to covet the wealth of another. The pursuit of wealth and property is what our founders meant by "happiness" (more or less). And, certainly, our founders did not consider the confiscation of the labor of others to be patriotic.
Hell. That's a big part of what they fomented a revolution to oppose. If a man's labor, or that of his family, is to be confiscated by the arbitrary sense of "fairness" by the likes of Sanders and Obama ...
Well ... let's just say that the founders would have strongly opposed Marxist theory in the late 1700s if it was invented by then.