Reply #92: It's never about taxing the rich just for taxation purposes...........

[socialist_n_TN]

As defend and protect said, for one thing, it's about CONTROL of the rich and the only way to control the rich is to control their income. I'm a socialist because I believe the GOVERNMENT (representing the people's interests) should have control over the system (representing money in general, profit in particular) rather than the system having control over the government. If the system is capitalism, it's even MORE important because capitalism strives to concentrate wealth and destroy competition. That's it's SOLE AND ONLY goal. IOW, government= people, capitalism= money. Which would you trust?

But nowdays, it's also about redistributing this wealth down to people who have less and less. This concentration of wealth is an lose/lose proposition for EVERYBODY, even the capitalists. The thing about a capitalist is that THEY DON'T CARE! A capitalist actually WOULD sell the rope used to hang him BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HIS/HER SYSTEM LEADS TO organically. So, we either begin to redistribute this ever more concentrated wealth downward or we have a violent uprising. The easiest way to redistribute is by governmental taxation. The hardest way is to TAKE it. But easy or hard, eventually this will happen.