Reality is accepted by everyone living in America, and nobody would have a problem paying the same percentage of their income.
When the percentage increases because you work hard, now we have a problem. Will my vote be increased by the same percentage?
That is precisely the problem with the "progressive" tax rates (or should I say regressive since they punish the productive). The democRATS basically buy votes by taking money from one class of taxpayer and giving it to other folks who tend to vote for them. Its buying votes on a grand scale. Not that silly low-budget stuff that they do in Wisconsin.