<...And the wealthy should pay more as a percentage. They get more, as a bottom line.

So basically it would be all right for me to rob a bank if they would still have more money left over afterwards than I walked off with. They still wind up better off than me, right?

I don't want to go into the basic flawed assumptions of wealth redistribution and egalitarianism since it wastes my time and annoys the liberals. Suffice it to say that I do not subscribe to the notion that all wealth is the property of the state, and that I should be tickled pink with whatever they decide to leave me.

When more liberals are concerned with cutting waste and unnecessary spending than with soaking the rich and increasing the size of government, get back to me.