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You seem to forget that income taxes rates have always and always will be based on what the taxpayer can afford to pay. Somehow that simple rule just goes right over your heads. You continue to forget that taxing people who spend all their income in the economy is self defeating as those taxes come right out of GDP. Taxing income not spent is far more efficient in a consumer economy. In other words a progressive tax system maximizes GDP growth. The decline in growth in the last 25 years is a least in part because of the reduction in progressivity of our tax structure.
The idea that some citizens can opt out of the social contract is ludicrous. Ihe desire to do so and to form a class based society would make our forefathers blood boil.
They'd be opting out of one service within our society. You can not sit there and tell me that absolutely every single government service MUST be part of a free and prosperous society. There's no reason that some things can't be a la carte.
And the rich already do pay more than the poor, that's how percentages work. Even if Romney, for instance, paid 13%, that's still millions more than you paid.