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It's not a matter of taking money from people "because [we] think they have too much." It is a matter of redistributing the national income more evenly so that the economy functions more efficiently.
Try this analogy: a society produces plenty of food for everybody, but it is distributed unevenly. If the uneven distribution isn't terribly egregious, everybody still gets enough to eat, so they can work a full day and continue to produce a surplus of food. But if the uneven distribution is so bad that a lot of workers don't get enough food to sustain themselves, then overall production is going to suffer.
This is the problem with income in today's economy - too much of it goes to too few, and demand suffers greatly for it.
You don't really give a crap about the poor. All you ever talk about is the economy and, according to your own admission, the better the economy does, the richer the one percent get.