fact-the rich have x amount of money
Opinion-that is bad
Wrong, how much money they have is irrelevant, or would be if we were a moral culture. It's not individual numbers, it's the FACT THAT 85% of the wealth no longer serves the public or the day to day commerce that is produced from the land and people of this country.
The Christians hold this "opinion" as a condition for entering heaven... or hell. The founders, after their experience with East India Trading and several other "corporate" governance of various colonies, not only knew it in their time and put strong restrictions on them, they knew it as a common sense lesson of history and men's weakness. At this point it ceases to be opinion, but carries with it the full weight of history and the tyranny that has followed it, in all it's forms, governmental as well as privately held wealth and power.
the fact does not make the opinion more persuasive or "correct"
Nor does it change the FACT that throughout history, when wealth and power, public or private is largely concentrated in the hands of a few, abuses to liberty and life follow. Every single time! It is THE rule, not the exception. The first free people on the face of the planet in 13k years is the exception.
It also doesn't change the fact that the Founders made clear warnings and did all they could in the spirit of compromise to but as tight and thick a chain as possible around corporations and banks.
So... now it's your turn (which I'm sure you'll piss away dodging and throwing more idiot "it's not that way because I say so, very lawyerly arguments at us) to show, when in the history of civilization, the top one percent owning 5/6ths of the wealth led to anything but subjugation of the masses, endless wars and the pillaging of far off lands?
fact-there are 6 tax brackets
Opinion-we need more tax brackets
So... you think that someone earning $374k should be in the same tax bracket as someone making $40 million?
FACT, this government is of the People, by the People, FOR the People... all of us. The people fell asleep while our elected public servants spent and mortgaged our future for the benefit of a wealthy elite... and our newest citizen super class, the corporation. FACT, over the last 30 years, we have seen the wages of the middle class fall, their taxes increase and cost of living soar. People making $100k-300k are just barely middle class these days, taxing them in the same bracket as those earning millions, the wealthy, the upper class... flies in the face of a progressive tax at all. Why stratify only the lower classes and allow the wealthy to be taxed at middle class rates?
There is only one reason... to play politics and broaden support for tax cuts to the wealthy by pushing the middle class into the wrong bracket. There should be less stratification at the bottom, fewer brackets, and many more at the top. Period. I don't really care what percentages you apply to them...