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I like your terminology, the "working" rich. That is a very good distinction. I agree that doctors, lawyers, and small business people making in the $200,000-$300,000 category are very different from the guys making millions, and the guys having millions. I have read about some CEOs making millions per year and when you stop to figure out how much they make to show up for 8 hours, it is nearly obscene. I am beginning to think we need to bring back the 70% rates again. parsy.

I have read about some CEOs making millions per year and when you stop to figure out how much they make to show up for 8 hours, it is nearly obscene. I am beginning to think we need to bring back the 70% rates again. parsy.

So what? Why do liberals like yourself think that because someone makes a lot of money, they should pay more for the government they live under?

I already know the answer. You are a statist. You believe that somehow life is intrinsically, inherently unfair. You believe in Robin Hood collectivism and that "somebody" should take money from the rich, who don't work some number of hours elitists like you deem necessary, or suffer enough for their labor, and give it to others.

I'm hear to tell you that I probably qualify as one of the "rich" and to get that way, I worked like a dog for 5 years, putting in 80 hours a weak and facing total bankruptcy in those early years. I recently sold my business, and the government, which did nothing to contribute to the business but asked for its share nonetheless during the entire time, gets to come along and take a huge percentage of my efforts. I also gave bonuses to my loyal employees who stayed with me even when things looked bleak, and they are now finding out what it means to be "rich." 5 figure bonuses cut in half because of government taxes. I paid tens of thousands of dollars to lawyers and accountants because if you make one little mistake in interpreting the tax laws, the IRS will come back for more money in 2-3 years because you "failed to pay" your fair share in not adhering to some miniscule, entrapping regulation they issue.

Fairness in taxation should mean that everyone pays their fair share...which means no person should pay taxes on a progressive scale. Taxes should be consumption based, not income based. Progressive taxation is a blank check for socialists to expand government.

When 10% of the population pays the majority of income taxes, and 50% of the population not only gets "free" government but gets money back from the government, it is manifestly unfair. The government does not create wealth, it only confiscates and redistributes it. Why the hell work hard if a bunch of 8-5 government kleptocrats think, as do you, they have some claim on my labor?

We have too much government, and it is because of people who think as you do. I only hope I live to see the day when the milk cows for the federal gigantocracy, the engines of the economy, tell like-minded parasites like you to go to hell and just quit working. Pay your own damn fair share.

"I am beginning to think we need to bring back the 70% rates again."

Great. Let's stick it those successful rich guys (sarcasm)

I only wish you the good fortune of becoming one so that you'll know what it feels like to have finally made it and have the government confiscate more than 40%.