<p>dstark,</p>
<p>When did I ever say that the rich should not pay a tax???</p>
<p>Of course, they should pay taxes. And I’m actually not sold on flat tax. A reasonable progressive tax with just a few buckets is fine. I am against confiscatory taxes, however. And I don’t give a dang about rich people leaving money to their kids.</p>
<p>Call me weird, but I don’t lose sleep over the notion that some rich kids might stay rich without working really, really hard to earn their riches. I don’t like it when people like you feel compelled to decide what is fair for each of us to keep or give away. I’m not likely to leave a ton of money to my kids. I don’t hate the people who are and want to take their money from them when they die and keep it away from their children.</p>
<p>In all honesty, such an inclination seems truly foul to me. Who are you to make that call? Can you not understand that the reason America has been a great country is because of our freedom, not because of our entitlements? There is a very persuasive argument to be made that is the entitlement mindset that is derailing us.</p>
<p>I just have less and less tolerance for those who think they have the right and the knowhow to make everything “fair”.</p>