sorry I was really baked when I posted that and didn't say what I meant very well...
What I don't really understand is why you (I'm assuming you're middle class) think that advocates of social programs are after your money... I don't understand why you defend the ultra rich and their right to fuck the under privileged, to start, maybe one day everyone. Is it because you have some hope of become rich one day? Me too... I have no desire to be so rich I would really need to worry about taxes. Are you defending your future rights to be ultra rich?
Do you know that only .3% of our government spending goes to food and nutritional welfare related spending?
As for all of the dribble about hard work, and life isn't easy, yadda.. Most saying shit like that have easier lives than the people they're saying it to.
What I realize is that the government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem.
Corporate profit and the profit of rich people is used for investment and growth. When you curb that investment and growth with taxation you get stagnation like the last 8+ years.
Wealth is created and any one can create wealth. If you understood that you would understand why I dont hate the rich for creating wealth.
I am defending my right to live in a society with a healthy robust economy. Not one that is sickly and constantly fucked with by a federal reserve and government who's interests no longer align with the people, particularly poor people.
I paid 13,000 dollars in taxes in 2014 for the priviledge of selling a business and property. My money is already being confiscated at an extremely high rate... Not what might happen, what is happening now. 13K or even 1/2 of that would have enriched my life more.
The government is not supposed to be in the business of re-distributing wealth.