Why Tax The Rich More? 11.17.09

When it comes to paying for a health care overhaul, Americans see just one way to go: Tax the rich.

The House bill would impose a 5.4 percent income tax surcharge on individuals making more than $500,000 a year and households making more than $1 million. Source

Maybe I’m in the minority here, and in no way do I fall in this category, or ever will, of earnings, but I just don’t get why everyone thinks the rich should pay for things like this.  I hate knowing that the taxes that I already pay are going to be distributed to some people that are just too sorry to get out and make better for themselves.  Too set in their way of free handouts to ever want to make something out of their lives.  I understand that we need social services.  There are people that are born disabled, become disabled, or what have you.  They do indeed need help with the cost of living.  This is something that cannot be avoided.  But there is too much fraud, too much neglect in the systems that we already have, to expand them and make the rich carry the price tag for such.  Where does this take the motivation to become successful and rich in America?