Taxation and the middle class

[danbrotherston]

And while you say "not enormously wealthy", a person making a good salary (say, $100K) plus $500K+  in capital gains will surely look that way to someone who is making $60K and struggling to pay rent.

If you want to beat up on wealthy people, beat up on the super-wealthy.

We can build a society where everybody has the financial equivalent of a $100,000/year job. We cannot build a society where everybody has the power of a billionaire.

Paying taxes != "beating up on".  Nobody is suggesting we literally eat the 500 thousandairs.