I will. Well, not just yet. In any event, it is a judgment call, and in part dictated by spending levels and income levels. The rich today are so much richer than the rich of a generation ago, and there are so many more of them (both of which are a good thing), that they do pay taxes in impressive absolute dollar numbers.
I will.
Thank you. This is precisely my point. So what your arguing is not economics, but ethics.
Another point. When we enrich the majority at the expense of a minority--on grounds of class, in this case--first, we undermine the notion of equality before the law. Second, and most important, no conceptual, logical, dialectical, or even material limit exists on the claims of the majority for the incomes and assets of the minority, i.e. those enjoying the benefits of appropriating the incomes of others have no incentive to ever vote for any other policy than an ever more steeply progressive rate of taxation.