Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
The rich don't deserve to pay any tax at all because they work hard to get where they are. IMO only the poor should be made to pay for public services, they are the only ones who use them anyway.
Anyone with even the most basic hard facts about how most people become wealthy in the United States would not argue this. The greatest indicator of one's future economic status is one's economic status at the time of their birth. Translation: if you are born rich, you will go forward to be rich. If you are born middle class, you will go forward to be middle class. Doing differently is a deviation, not a norm.

Does Paris Hilton work harder than your great-grandparents did when they got off whatever boat they got off? I doubt it. Yet somehow I am pretty sure your great-grandparents died without a lot of money, unless they were aristocracy or something. ;)