They don't have the ability because they made a choice to be uneducated, a choice to forgo marketable job skills, the choice to avoid risk and build a business.
The high-end earners already pay their fair share in taxes, not to mention they spend more, invest in and own the companies that provide jobs and products to "the bud light drinkers"........all of which help the economy.
What makes you think that moderate and poor wage earners are where they are b/c of the choices they made?
Isn't that a wonderfully convenient 1/2 truth? They get what they deserve!
Unfortunately life is little more complex than that. Talent, intelligence, nepotism, timing, luck and host of other factors go into the equation for achievement in one's life. Bush would not have been president if his old man were not president first. He clearly had no talent for the job.
If individual effort were indicative of success, we'd have a lot more millionaires. Hell, the garbage men work hard...police work hard....firemen work hard...are they rich? No. But they are damn sure necessary to running a coherent civil society.
The really rich are also massive consumers of american work product: the internet, or rural electrification or defense/nasa technology 'shared' with private enterprise. How about the billion dollar bail outs of the really rich--auto makers, the S&L scandal, Bear Stearns, and now Fannie Mae? It's called socializing the cost of business while privatizing the profit.
