Forgive the ramble, but I can only read so much nonsense without a response. So, I grew up in a lefty but capitalist household. My family goes back to the pre-revolutionary days and I had a Great^n Uncle with John Stark at the rail fence. My family still owns that original homestead. I got a huge head start in life because 10 generations of reasonably smart people stood behind me. That is privilege. And it was that privilege that let me make a mistake or two when I was young and still get ahead in life. I have no kids of my own but will be passing my share of privilege down to my nieces and nephews. There are no self made men. Those that call themselves that, are Liars or Fools. I have spent about half my engineering career working for the military industrial complex , so Hey! I am sucking off the Gov't teat. Everything we are, is because of who supported us growing up, who taught us in High School, where we went to High School. I was lucky that I got paired with a grey beard or two early in my career, who actually enjoyed guiding a young punk like me towards becoming a grey beard him self. It takes a village, and I got a great one in so many ways. There are lots of kids who are flailing and failing not because of any fundamental flaw in their character, but because they got a crappy village. A lot of you are following the "I'm all right Jack" philosophy which translates as "Eff U buddy, I got mine!" if that were the way most humans viewed the world, we would still be bashing heads in with an antelope's thigh bone. It is in my interest that all those poor kids with no Dad's get not just adequate educations but really good ones. Maybe the cure for the cancer I'll get when I'm eighty will come from one of them! At this point in the evolution of human society our village is our nation. And our nation could do a better job at a lot of stuff, and that comes down to money. The GDP is not going to suffer if Bezos and similar types kick in a little more. I am a W2 worker. I get no loopholes, I have no way to shelter income. And what is on the check gets taxed end of story. Why shouldn't the ultra-rich play by the same rules I play by? Pay the same rates I pay? Or to you think they are better than us?