Since when have taxes solved anything. Raising taxes and introducing new ones is a favourite trick of lazy beauru-rats. As if money is at the root of all problems and how it and its 'redistribution' solves everything. This is not borne out by the facts. The more governments tax, the more they spend (often very inefficiently) and the more they need, therefore the more they tax. As Winston Churchill said "You dont make the poor richer by making the rich poorer."

Progressive taxation strikes me as Doublethink. What is progressive about punishing someone for earning more? What is progressive about arbitrarily confiscating a larger proportion of an individual's labour or productive output just because they earn more. We can do essentailly the same work but be paid vastly different amounts. Like a CEO who works for a prestigious firm earning 10 times more than another CEO at a less prestigious company. Both with fundamentally similar work loads. Under 'progressive' taxation the one who earns more effectively spends a greater portion of their life 'working for the man.' Why should one have to work roughly 9 months of the year to feed the system, whilst their neighbour works 3 months in the year to feed it? Where is the fairness in that.

Progressive tax aims to homogonise us, drag us all down/up to a level of acceptable mediocrity and control our vanity and envy.

We live in a Robinhood society. Robbing Peter to pay Paul. As long as your Paul and not Peter, most seem quite happy with that.