I hate that "rich pay more taxes" BS.

[hunter]

22. Who gets the greater benefit from our society?

The people who work multiple crappy jobs and are barely getting by...

... or someone who owns multiple houses in beautiful places, drives fancy cars, and travels the world first class?

Tax rates SHOULD be steeply progressive, with the very wealthy paying most of them, the affluent paying their fair share, and those barely getting by paying nothing.

Jobs that don't pay a comfortable living wage simply shouldn't exist.

Those who are unemployed or unemployable should receive a basic income, safe comfortable housing, appropriate medical care, and a basic income.

Creating jobs is a trivial problem when taxation is progressive and government can create money.

Healthy people want to work, they want to make their communities a better place. They don't need the threat of starvation, homelessness, and death by treatable medical conditions hanging over their heads as any kind of "punishment" for not working.

Punitive, puritanical societies don't work except for those at the very top seeking and holding vast power and wealth.

Progressive taxation and strong social safety nets are essential to the stability of any free market.

Otherwise society collapses into some version of stagnant feudalism or worse.