As I have stated prior, I am more of a flat taxer and favor dumping the current tax code with all its finagling and changes to reward political supporters, lobbyists, and "friends". This currently applies and has applied to ALL POLITICAL PARTIES, and we should elect people who will actually make changes in the tax code. However, we still disagree on the progressive taxation issue which does, factually and historically, have its roots in Marxism (which I completely reject). To say to a person, who creates thousands and millions of jobs and creates employment opportunities for those folks to move from lower all the way to upper class, that you should be penalized for taking the effort, putting your capital at risk (they don't always work out and nobody wants to hold "protests in the park" to get them reimbursed even if they lose everything!), sacrificing time to build that enterprise, that we should now take the choice to "share or contribute to charities of choice" (understanding not everyone has the heart to do so, but I bet you and I would!) and force them to pay for others (who don't do the same things and never would because they are just not "motivated" to do so) is just not the right thing to do - IMHO! Good Day!