well we could start from being one of the current heads of the Longworth Family
Longworth family?
then 28 years as a fairly prominent attorney who went to fairly prominent schools (the kind with Ivy)
and then as the owner of several fairly profitable corporations-two of which I formed with my brothers, one with my late father and a fourth with my brothers and father.
The thing is, everything that you've done, you couldn't have done in a vacuum. If you had grown up as a poor child in the Third World somewhere, you wouldn't have been able to become the successful person you are today. You were able to become a successful lawyer and business owner because of the society that we live in. You went to an Ivy league school? Good for you. The American society, using the government as its agency, decided that education was important and set up colleges that lessened the pressure on your school, making it easier for you to get in and improving the quality of your education. The teachers that taught you, some of them were likely educated by the government, at a public university. Police and firefighters kept the campus safe and secure.
You practiced law? That judge was a public employee. The jury was provided by the government. Some of the opposing lawyers might have been paid by the public to be there. The entire legal system that you preyed on and exploited to make your money was paid for and set up by the community, through the government. You were taking advantage of all of our tax money and our work so that you could get rich. Without all of the work done by the government to set up our legal system, there's no way you could have been a lawyer. You were quite literally living off the government, even if you had to work for it.
You started businesses? I congratulate your work. The copyright and trademark laws the government enforces made sure that you could capitalize on your intellectual property and could be free of people duping your customers. Again, police and firefighters protected your property. Your employees almost undoubtedly took advantage of some sort of public education to be qualified to work for you. The roads or cables or phone lines that carried your goods or your service, or let customers get to you? Those were paid for with our taxes. You used money in transactions? That money only mattered because the government set up a financial system and made sure banks could safely operate. (And before anyone argues about specie vs. fiat money, even a specie economy needs the government. Otherwise, your gold coin isn't good for anything other than being a really malleable metal.)
Everything that you've done, you've been able to do because taxes paid for it, somewhere along the way. Your law practice, your businesses, our tax money let you do that. There are a million little things that society, through our government, has done to let you have the opportunity to use your native talents to become successful. Every day, you've taken advantage of this infrastructure in ways that most of us will never be able to. That is why it is fair for you to pay more.
all in all I do OK and I probably pay more taxes in a quarter than you make in a year
I'm sure you do. I am currently working to put myself through school, working towards a Master's of Urban Planning. First person in my family to go to college, too. You could say I'm pulling myself up by my bootstraps.