Taxation and the middle class

[ijmorlan]

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.

You’re focussing on my exact wording and ignoring the main point, which is that the income inequality problem isn’t primarily that there are lots of people who make 2-3 times the average. The main problem is that a tiny, almost invisible, fraction of people are thousands of times wealthier than typical people.