Obviously the problem is that rich people have too much money, more than they need.
What needs to be done is to decide how much is enough for anyone...say, $150,000 a year. After that determination is made, anyone who makes over that hands the excess over to the government. That should solve, at one stroke, most of the problems facing the country.
Of course, they would have to make a few exceptions, people who could keep more than $150,000--members of the U.S. Congress, trial lawyers, lobbyists, professional athletes, basketball coaches, abortion providers, ex-Presidents. Everyone else, hand it over. The government can make better use of the money.
I find it totally repugnant that most of the RATS in Congress and especially in the Senate, are also RICH. The Kerry's, Kennedy's, Lieberman's, the Edwards etc etc are all rich guys with far too much money and time on their hands. These parasites have voted themselves even more money in salary and bennies as well as endless perks that the "poor" (everyone else in the Republic) do not get or merit in the eyes of the pols. The Pubbies are included in the class of rich and big spenders). They all remind me of the Roman patricians who ran Rome into the ground centuries ago. It was all about money then too.