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Why make it super hard? Why not just create a taxation system that is evenly applied to the super rich?
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Because the government could always use more money, and there's really no point in having it around in such big piles? Because the more they take from that end of the scale the less they need to take from the other end?
Because there's just a lot of money available there?
Also, you didn't address the my point of "the superrich have an unproportionate amount of power which eats away the basics of democracy" at all.
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The super rich invest a lot of money in charity work, so I do think there is a need for people to have billions of dollars. The work that the Gates Foundation has done is largely possible because Bill Gates is so insanely rich.
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Some of them do, some of them don't. While the money might be good, it's not proportionally anything special. Basicly, if the money was spread around more evenly there would be about equal amount of charity.
Do you have anything else as to why people need to be allowed to be superrich?
Also, for every Bill Gates there's a Robert Murdoch, who spends his money to spread around his political agendas. What's the benefit in that? If that money was spread more evenly, more people would get to participate.
(Also, why does Bill Gates get to decide that the developing world needs more Windows machines for educational progams, when something else might make more sense in the long run for those receiving the aid?)