>You are essentially saying I should pay more in taxes. (Our household income is at the level where Sanders wants to increase the rate). I have a fundamental problem with any declaration that I should have more of the results of my livelihood seized from me.


I don't look forward to paying taxes but:
someone paid taxes to fund our victory inWWII;
someone paid taxes to fund my education under the GI bill;
someone paid taxes to build the interstate highways that I rode on for years and still ride and ride to earn a living;
someone paid taxes to fund mine, my children's and my grandsons' primary and secondary educations;
the list goes on and on.

Since the very founding of the republic, there have been lots of people who have had fundamental problems paying taxes.
George Washington himself could not persuade the states to raise enough revenue to pay the soldiers who had defeated Cornwallis at Yorktown and those soldiers were never paid.

I personally have real issues with local taxes here in NJ, given the level of corruption, and I campaign against them, but I think that federal taxes are too low on the upper brackets and have been for decades.
Even if Bernie's rates are accepted, the upper incomes will be paying lower rates than the rates that I paid when I was in management. Somehow, I survived.


That's why we have elections.