[csense]

The government creates taxes. The rich create tax paying citizens by creating jobs. Strangle the rich, you strangle the jobs, which reduces revenue. Continue to strangle the rich, and they'll go someplace else, and even that revenue leaves the country.

Simple enough for ya...

The system works perfectly fine until someone thinks they are entitled to that which they did not labour for.

[Christus_Rex]

The problem is your picture is too simplistic. Yeah the $4 trillion stolen from the Fed was earned honestly right? The hundreds of billions looted from the US taxpayers in the Stimulus and Bailout were also justly earned? The Wall Street leaders who pushed financial instruments like mortgage based derivatives they knew were rotten, looted companies and then walked way with hundreds of millions in compensation and not a single criminal conviction were also entitled to that? No one here suggested we strangle the rich/super rich or tax them into oblivion!