why aren't you rich?
let's do a thought experiment here. survey people in the middle and upper middle class. why aren't you rich? why don't you have a net worth of $10 million or more? you'll get lots of answers. no one will pay me enough. my business hasn't taken off yet. the right opportunity hasn't come along yet. but absolutely none of them will say, i'd be a rich person except the taxes on rich people are too high and i choose not to pay them. i'd be rich. i just don't want to pay the taxes of being rich. riiiiight. it's an absurd position. yet it's one of the more valid arguments in favor of cutting taxes for the rich.