In short, the lazy welfare rats want free money by taxing the hard working rich people.
Why do you assume rich people are hard working?
The hardest working people I've ever known are poor as hell and work multiple jobs to take care of their families. The richest people I know have never worked a
single day in their life. Trust fund babies, people who took their parent's real estate and money and invested without ever working for
anything. Every cent they have was built on other people's backs. What do they know about
work?For some reason people imagine struggling small business owners who actually work, then they project that image onto monopolizing billionaire scum like Jeff Bezos, who spend extraordinary amounts of money crushing labor unionization and doing corporate lobbying to protect their poor workplace practices and anti-consumer practices.
Their "hard work" is pouring
barely taxed profits into maintaining monopolies so they can legally mistreat workers and suck us all dry as consumers. Has anyone else noticed how popular items sold on Prime have quietly increased in price 20-100% over the past 2 years? That's not inflation. It's Amazon price gouging after putting most of their competitors out of business.
This is not a free market. This is not capitalism. This is not "hard work." People get so mad at the idea of poor people getting free money, but they have no problem with governments handing giant corporations
so much more. Why?
They want to tax capital gains and dividends, at a rate which is equal to the tax on regular income. But if the tax level is increased to such an amount, then why the rich should make investments?
They can always renounce their citizenship and move to some tax haven if it's such a burden.
They can simply hold their wealth in the form of bullion or treasury bonds and avoid paying any tax.
If they want to liquidate that bullion or treasury bonds, then taxes will come due.