1) Yes, because they exert far too much power over the government. 2) "Destroy their class" only in the sense that there wouldn't be billionaires. They'd have

1) Yes, because they exert far too much power over the government. 2) "Destroy their class" only in the sense that there wouldn't be billionaires. They'd have to make do with a paltry $999 million, the horror. I'm not proposing to kill rich people or put them in camps. I'm not even proposing the absolute horror of making them work for a living. I'm just proposing that there should be aggressive taxes that prevent their wealth from growing to the point that it gives them absurdly outsized power in our nominally democratic system. 3) Yes, but this is, again, not socialism. The idea that the government gets power no private citizen can have is fairly basic and runs across ideologies aside from the more extreme sorts of libertarianism or anarchism.