On issue on any topic including this one is that people think in very binary terms. The fact is though, we can have a system where the wealth is not "redistributed" but those with a whole lot do pay more for our social safety net that keeps us a first-world country. The people who are really rich make MAGNETUDES of money more than those who are poor, we're not talking like a bit more, we're talking so many hundreds of times over. Its rather disgusting when people make the argument that they need that much money, or that making 10% less of a million dollars will suddenly leave them with no incentive to work. Oh no, you have to get a lamborghini without the sun roof option instead so that a few hundred people don't starve. Yes, how terrible.