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The wealth class tears up our roads, makes more use of our common infrastructure, and oh yeah, gains access to a pre-literate workforce despite wanting to starve all of it for tax breaks.
Progressive taxation simply means when you're a winner in society, you get to pay back the society that provided all of the conditions that facilitated your success in the first place. Wouldn't a sane person want to?
Instead they usually congratulate themselves, even upon inheritance, for having earned the exploited money in their portfolio with no help whatsoever.
We just need to reframe the issue for them. The alternative to getting to pay it back isn't not having to pay it back. It's us coming to take it back.
I think the wealthy should pay higher taxes, and a flat tax rate is stupid But I don't think "the wealthy use more infrastructure" is a good argument to get there Arguably that use of infrastructure is to the benefit of all society right?