>>>>Getting those marginal rates back up there would be step one.
>>>>Getting more income taxed as ordinary income would be step two.
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>>Quoting Thomas Jefferson: "It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."
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>>He also said "I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
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>>A less kindly fellow might see you as one of Jefferson's swindlers, wringing your hands while proposing more taxes on posterity to fix what you did.
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>>Such a fellow might ask how much will you contribute yourself?
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>I was fortunate to see my income accelerate quickly at a young age.
>The rates I paid on my income were higher than the rates Mitt Romney now pays.
>Mickey Mantle, one of the highest paid athletes of his time, made the unheard of sum of $100K/yr and paid more than half of that in taxes.
>Tiger Woods, who makes more than $50million a year, pays a lower rate than Mickey did.
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>If you can construe that to mean that my generation is stealing from Mitt and Tiger, we are on two different planets.

Wealth redistribution has been from the poor to the rich in the usa for quite some time.