Should there be a distribution of wealth?

Becoming wealthy isn't risk free. Businesses rise and fall, companies come and go. Invention of new things has been a great boon for the world, patented medical procedures and medicines have saved countless lives. Travel from east to west coast in a matter of a few hours when it used to take months. Medical devices like walkers and pacemakers allow people mobility and add years to their lives. Cell phones, the internet, things we rely on today, the people who invented these things, who worked to make it happen, who got rich from their intellectual capacity and drive, would they do it if the government on a whim could wipe them out financially, what is the reason to risk everything if it can just randomly be taken away to be spread out among those who never risked anything?

I don't think there should be a redistribution of wealth. I would be in favor of a flat tax, 10-12% everybody pays, no deductions, no loopholes. I pay 10%, Bill Gates pays 10%, the kid working at McDonald's sweeping floors for min wage pays 10%. That would be fair. Nothing matters except how much you made, not whether you are married have 15 kids, just 10% of the gross.