Higher taxes are better for the rich as a whole, yes. This nation has some of the lowest tax rates among developed nations in the world and the rich still bitch about it.
Higher taxes -- for the rich or the not rich -- are a bad thing. It's not "better" by any stretch of the imagination for anyone to have more of their money confiscated.
I never said higher taxes cure depression, I said capitalism with the chase of material things and wealth creates depression, because people realize it's a uphill battle they will never win, only the few elite will have the money now and that is how the system is built for now. Oh course people will get depressed chasing a dream they know never will come true. The USA has sold the dream of material wealth and have the sheep going for it, living their lives going after money, while the lucky elite sit back and count their money off the hard work of the people that will never be in that position a day in their lives.
You seem to assume that the rich people are rich because of the work everybody else does, and not because of their own work. To be sure, there are those who inherit money and are in such a position. But don't envy such people -- their money isn't yours and even if it were, you'd have done no better with it.
That is up to you if you would like to quit your job, just like O Reily said if they raise the tax rate he is going to quit, it is all bullshit, you won't quit, you are addicted to money, you do not want to just get by and have a few material things, you want it all, you are pulled in by greed and will do anything to acquire more money it sounds like.
I don't know or case what "O Reily" said. And, frankly, you don't know me nearly as well as you think do. I don't care for money qua money. I care for what that money represents -- or what it's supposed to represent. And I simply have had enough of a government that punishes me for my success by forcing me to part with more of my income the harder I work. I simply have had enough of a governent that treats me as human wallet, whose only purpose is to provide money for others.
It's not about the acquisition of money. It's about living in the society you and your ilk have established and want to perpetuate. You advocate the system where success is evil and effort is punished and where workers are exalted. Well then, I stop succeeding, stop putting in the effort, and just become a worker bee. And you know what? I know that scares you, because
you need me -- you need me to continue succeeding so that you can keep taking from me; you need me to continue putting in the effort so you can reap the benefits.
