What a just society would do would be to add taxes to the wealthy and raise income for the poor, slowly and gently transferring wealth from the rich to the poor

What a just society would do would be to add taxes to the wealthy and raise income for the poor, slowly and gently transferring wealth from the rich to the poor in a way that doesn't destroy the system. The fact that not only are we not doing that but that we are violently opposed to doing that is a fair weather barometer of our current justice quotient.