>>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.
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>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.

Assuming you listed in desc order of importance, I am pretty certain the above could be paid easily if the percentages of spending were the same as post-WWII from the amount currently taken in. Back then probably no country redistributed the percentages set aside in current times. Have not looked at US numbers recently, my rule of thumb/guesstimate/dim memory is 1/3 on direct redistribution via social security, pensions, food stamps and so on and another 1/4 for medicare/medicaid and similar stuff.

While such stuff does flow back into the economy, there is a difference to investments in infrastructure, even if Autobahn is tainted, esp. coming from a german.
The money for nothing trend is the thing killing any positive effect higher taxes might have IMO.