>>Again, I'm convinced that for a large number of people this is not about selfishness and self interest but about plain principles.
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>Those "plain principles" are usually that somebody else should pay.

Again, I have no problems to pay my share, and I'm already in the highest tax-rate. So, no your argument does not hold water for me. What I do have a problem is the shameless greed. That should be heavily taxed. We have inheritance tax, and again I have no problem with that. If you want to get rich, you'll have to be taxed for it.

OTOH, Taxes should be well spend, abuse and waste should be punished.


BTW, inheriting your wealth and whether or not being taxed for it has nothing to do with either freedom or capitalism. Things are different here, and we still have as much freedom as you have, and last time I looked, we're still a very economic competitive (capitalistic) country.