> Taking away money from the rich to help the economic welfare of society is like taking your best football players off the field and sitting them on the bench

> Taking away money from the rich to help the economic welfare of society is like taking your best football players off the field and sitting them on the bench for the benefit of your football team. By that logic, tax brackets should be regressive so that the "best" players pay 0% or, better yet, negative. I don't comprehend your "intuition" on granparent's post about cash. You imply all of it is being invested, which is absolutely not true.