Kind of a silly notion.
My numbers may be a tad off, but for 2011 I believe your idea would result in a family of four receiving a federal tax bill for the amount of $35,000. You are aware this is more than the total income of a good many people, I assume?
Expecting a wealthy man to pay more in taxes than a poor man is just common sense. Like robbing banks because that is where the money is.
The real question is whether a rich man should pay a higher percentage of taxation than a poor man, and I might very probably agree with you there.
I’m curious what happened to the notion of dedicating “our lives, fortunes and sacred honor” to the survival of freedom? Very obviously the great majority of money taxed away doesn’t go to this cause, it is just wasted.
Equally obviously, IMO, a refusal to support your country financially (for its truly legitimate expenditures) is at least as unpatriotic as refusal to support it militarily. If the country goes down, what good is your money going to do you?
You seem to think “the fortune” should be off-limits.
That's about my calculation, as well. Of course, it's a silly notion, you can't get $35,000 per family, but the idea is to get an understanding of what our federal behemouth costs per capita. The problem isn't in patriotism, (and I don't like taxes and patriotism being linked, sounds to Bidenesque) but in the size of the government. You said that most of the money doesn't go to the cause of freedom. Well, that's what we need to get rid of. And that doesn't depend on making sure the rich pay their 'fair share.'