[dogscoff]

He never considers the sacrifices and hard work that the rich man had to make to get that wealth. He doesn't respect the ingenuity of the rich man to succeed in a competitive market.

Hang on, not every multi-millionaire with his finger in the political pie is a hero of capitalism. Sure, a rich guy might slog through regular 70 hour weeks but if he is doing all that work to line his own pockets and shaft the rest of the world in the process then I'd rather he stayed at home and put his feet up by the pool.

I will concede that there are plenty of rich ppl out there who pulled themselves up from the lower wage brackets to make their fortunes. As long as they got where they are honestly then I can respect them and sympathise with their claims to a fair deal.

However, these all american heroes of capitalism are probably not in the majority, and even if they are they won't necessarily have much power. That is held by another class of rich guy: The one who didn't work for his money. The rich guys currently running the world (for example... ooohhh... let's just pluck a name out of the air... say, someone like George W Bush) tend to be rich because of "old money", first established generations ago by God only knows what means.

The inheritors of this wealth all too often have no understanding of the lives of the little people they use and discard: They were handed their power on a silver spoon and because they didn't earn it they never learned about using it responsibly. All they value is their own position, and they will quite happily pollute, exploit, decieve, despoil and destroy to continue the family legacy and keep power out of the hands of the plebs.

These people should be forced to make a significant contribution to society because you can be damn sure they will be doing everything in their considerable power to dodge most of it. Until a culture emerges among the inherited rich to bring up their children into a tradition of benevolence and social responsibility they should be chased out of politics by angry mobs waving ****ty sticks and flaming torches.

The poor man believes that he should have as much as the rich without having to work for it.

No, the (average) poor man just wants to have a chance to earn a decent quality of life and the assurance that if fate drops a bomb on him he won't end up homeless, starving or wasting away from a curable disease like some medieval peasant at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

Not sure what any of this has to do with the US tax system, other than the fact that I wouldn't trust most politicians as far as I could spit them when it comes to introducing a fair or honest system.