The premise was that our country is more progressive in its taxation than all the others on that list. The numbers bear that out.

And a huge percentage of our population, approaching a majority, pay little or no income taxes. The numbers bear that out, too.

If you think this is a feature, not a bug, and apparently you do, go for it.

Repeating the term "economic bully" over and over again will only impress people who don't actually think about it.

The vast majority of the people who pay little or no taxes are not "children, the old, the sick, and the infirm."

Just for fun, go look at our federal budget, and tally up how much of it is caring just for the old. Then you can also tally up medical care for the poor, and all the other social programs. Start here.

Not enough yet, apparently. There are still people out there who have more than others do.

As for your high rhetoric on human obligations, I don't recall Christ showing up at the rich man's door with a Roman soldier on either side of him, demanding money for the poor or the rich guy would get tossed in prison.

The ideology of forced wealth redistribution, the demolition of the wealthy to care for the poor, has killed every society that has consistently applied it. That's not just history, that's happening right on the front pages.