There sure is an awful lot of talk about rich people and how they spend their money lately.
I myself, really don't care about what other people have, only what I have or don't have.
Just because someone has more than I do doesn't mean they should share with me.
It's actually none of my business how much of anything anyone else has than me.
All I need to worry about is me and if I need to improve my income than I do what I can to do that.
Nobody owes anyone anything except for life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

i agree. and it would be a nice compromise to socialism if the government would take that money and build businesses that would give people jobs and make more money for itself. why does it have to be all or nothing? i think i'd support government run businesses.

It is hoarding money. Some have more money than they could spend in 100 lifetimes, while some have several jobs and still atruggle to pay for basics. Tax cuts will only benefit the wealthiest, those on modest income wouldnt really notice the difference. Some chief execs "earn" over 100 times the amount that blue colar workers do. Does that mean they work 100 times harder? Of course not. As I said, they ate hoarding money. If they were hoarding excess items like clothes or books, that would be seen as a problem. But because it's money, it is worshipped.

One of the considerable issues with a wealth tax is establishing the value of that wealth. Not only the value but the ownership. The super rich may have many assets which are unique and would require specialist valuations. This would be very admin intensive. Various elements of their wealth may be hidden and disputes over ownership would inevitably end up in lengthy and costly court cases.

It's pretty easy to assess the wealth of your average person as pretty much everything that they are likely to own will have an off the shelf value, excluding the odd heirloom. Its much more complex to assess the value of collector's items, the value of which may change exponentially from year to year and would need to be reassessed each year with another specialist valuation.

It's not that some form of wealth tax is impossible, but the wrong form of wealth tax could be extremely admin intensive and complex. It could tie up the court system and would also result in some leakage of wealth as a small number of the super rich move their wealth elsewhere.

Everyone who earns a salary deserves it, that is beyond debate. But why should those on more modest salaries be denied decent housing, healthcare, etc, simply because they earn less? The burden of funding public goods must fall on those with the broadest shoulders, who would barely notice that additional 2%.

That's easy - the UN charter made it clear. Entitlements that guarantee a universal income, housing, education, access to leisure and travel are a start, and that's already the law. Get the USA and conservative politics out of the way and follow the UN charter.
Providing for the population, for everyone, is not optional. It's a government responsibility we can't let fascists sabotage.

True.

self sufficiency and jobs..

why any country allows foreign ownership of land or utilities is a crime..

Yup, punish the successful and reward the failures. It's only fair to do it, right?

But with all the tax dodges they do,we pay more tax than some rich folk!!!

Why don't the sports celebrities clean up the cities they work in? They don't need all that money.

Unfortunately, taxes are going to lowered for the rich once again in the Trump administration.

Big business pays 75% of all taxes collect in the U.S.