Why do you think the rich should pay more? [View All]

What is your justification?

To me it boils down to this; the Unites States is a very wide open country that allows for the free exchange of ideas and the ability for almost anyone to take a stab at the American Dream. (Myth, I know, but hear me out.)

The flip side of this is that once you made it, you are pretty safe and you can take steps within our system of laws and regulations, to protect your wealth and also to protect your property. (Most law suits in this country are not filed by injury prone ambulance chasers but by patent attorneys trying to protect their clients' Wealth.)

So my rational is that the system is gamed to protect those who have made it. Simply put; they should pay more.

Now the flip side of that, the dark side, if you will, is that if things go in the shitter, and they could very well given the smoldering feelings of angst festering out there in the in-between land, they, meaning the wealthy, have the most to lose. Therefor, they should pay more.

Plus the fact that those in the bottom rungs of the socioeconomic scale tend to spend all that they earn so putting more money in the hands of this strata is best for those at the top as they tend to own everything anyway.

My thinking is that if they continue to not pay their fair share then the chances of their safe refuge here in the good old US of A could very well be put in jeopardy.

So what is your justification.