Then tell me BY WHAT RIGHT the government should be able to seize more of what "the rich" earns./edit/
The American Revolution could have been avoided had the English "rich" agreed to share more rather than asserting some sort of natural right to a system that benefited themselves.
;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
