[stupiduser]

This boat is a great advertisement for progressive taxation; under more extreme progressive taxation Perkins would still have the biggest boat (which is all he really cares about), it just wouldn't have be nearly so big or wasteful =P.

[anamax]

The only federal taxes that about half Americans pay are for their retirement, and even that is subsidized by the other half.

Of the "not retirement" taxes, the vast majority is already paid by the "rich", with a huge fraction coming from the top 5% alone.

How much more progressive should the system be?

And, in Biden's words, shouldn't the rest of America be patriotic, ie pay taxes?

[DanielBMarkham]

When the communists took power in China, mobs would go from house to house in what was euphemistically called "people's courts" The mob would bring out the capitalist, demonstrate all of the rewards of their work. Usually they would be whipped into a frenzy, the idea being that there was no way anybody needed any of that wealth.

Either you understand how deeply immoral that is or you don't.

[laut]

I'd say it's a great advertisment for how much wealth that can be created in a relatively free economy. You don't see many mega yacht buyers from Cuba or North Korea.

And I think your thought of having the state stealing even more money from people is despicable.