pbrauer
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- Jun 6, 2010
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- Liberal
The reason you achieve more is because you use more of that provided provided by the govenment. For example if you invent a widget, why should I care whether somebody starts making the same thing and profiting from it, they will pobably sell it cheaper than you. Why should I have to pay taxes to protect YOU? That's just one example of why the rich should pay at a higher rate.The poor, as well as the 'ok' as well as the 'slightly more ok' etc, are all part of that. I have no problem paying my fair share in taxes to 'contribute to the public expense', but I simply do not believe I should have to pay a higher percentage of my income in taxes, simply because I have achieved more in my life than someone else has. If I want to help those who have not acheived as much as I have, I'll choose to do so, or not.
In short, you are wealthy because you depend upon much of what the govenment provides you by helping you get weathy and protecting it.