At the end of the day, most want their life subsidized by someone else.

“However, why should people be penalized just because they are rich?”

I agree - you work hard to get out of middle or low income, and your reward is a higher tax and increasingly you are asked to pay for others. I am not rich either, but it does suck that if you become rich, you are a target to solve every social injustice. Shouldn’t the people using the system pay for it?

Jobs are created by demand. So do poor people buy the $50,000 new SUVs being churned out by Detroit? Do poor people buy new $1,000,000 homes? Do poor people go on vacations, fly on airlines, visit theme parks, go to the symphony, eat at fancy restaurants, or use the products or create the demand for any number of…

You make far too much sense for someone like Ryan to understand.

I am not rich. I would not be affected by this tax because I don’t make over 1ook, much less 500K and I don’t live in NY. However, why should people be penalized just because they are rich? Most people who are rich worked hard and took risk to get there. They already pay the majority of the income taxes. Also, rich…