Yes, but if they have to pay more taxes than everyone else then soon they wont be rich anymore. Everyone should be treated fairly. You can't have some people pay more money than others.
I'm guessing that you aren't old enough to pay or understand how taxes work. Not to mention have a job in this economy and see how ugly capitalism is to people on the bottom.
Try this, our country is in the economical toilet right now. To get out and not bought by some place like China (who we owe TONS of money to) we HAVE TO RAISE TAXES. This is the only way to start to balance our budget.
SO, do you raise taxes on the people on the bottom of the money scale? No, because you'd have to raise it pretty high and these people are dieing in the streets already. If you raise taxes on the rich (who have had a lot of tax cuts right now thanks to the current government leaders) you get a LOT more money with a small amount of tax raising...
It's kinda like if you have 1,000 dollars, one dollar isn't very much to you, but if you have 10 one dollar is life and death... Does this make sense? You can take a few thousand dollars from a multi-billionaire and it won't make too much of a dent on their bank statemnet... but you take one thousand dollars from someone who only makes twenty-thousand a year and they can't pay their bills anymore. That's why we already have in place a tax bracket system, that's why if we were to raise taxes anywhere it would have to be in the top tiers.
Plus, in this crisis, lower tax bracket people are losing their homes and going bankrupt... do you see those big companies run by all those rich people lowering their profit margins so that poor people can afford to live? Or do you see prices going up? Capitalism is a cold, cold system, where big fish prey on the little ones. People are cruel to other people in this system. This system isn't designed to be fair. Life isn't fair. Is it fair to be born into a poor family get kicked out when you're 18 and not be able to afford an apartment? No. Is it fair that qualified people get fired from their jobs that they've been working at for years because there's a less qualified person that they can hire for less to take their place? No. Is it fair that medical costs are so astronomically high that most people cannot afford it even if they have a life threatening disease? No.
If you want fairness in government, we should all be communist (or socialist which means the same thing but a lot of people don't understand what communism actually is).
It'd be great if generally in this society people were good people. Really, it would be great. However, one must operate on the principles of reality to make a good judgment of reality. Idealism has its place, but not applied to this situation.
