Plank #2 of the Communist Manifesto calls for a heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.
-- K. Marx.
The communist manifesto did not see the rich lib gentries as being the main instigators of socialism or the country club conservatives as being so feckless or treacherous to our side. This especially happened since we lower their taxes several times over the past thirty years. If they are going to let in all of those immigrants to impoverish the rest of us and spend all of the money they spend or print the lies that they do in their media I say tax them. No body here does not think rich liberals should not pay their taxes and if the country clubbers are gong to shell out I say let them shell out.
And what he has sketched out (nothing comprehensive offered) is a step back from the really progressive tax system we have - funny how a step in the right direction causes alarm bells to go off in some folks' heads.