Thank you!
I refuse to allow those I talk politics with to use the word "rich". I say "Oh you mean our employers and investors, the people who sign your check?" It's instructive to point out that punishing employers and investors is perhaps the best way to HARM lower income levels, if that were your goal. By merely taxing them, you reduce their income, but by targeting their employers through tax policy, you may cost them their job.
The turning of the word "rich" into a pejorative is part of the reason we have so many people ignorant of how capitalism actually functions.
Well many of those “rich” and “wealthy” are neither.
They simply are trying to become wealthy while having road block after road block thrown in front of them while at the same time being vilified for not paying their “fair share” and/or causing the economic mess we’re in.