&gt;&gt;anyone here seems to be proposing is to make the rich less rich but still rich.<p>This is backwards. Not sure why this should even be done. And why does this have to end at an individual? Why should some countries be so economically powerful and others not? Will it be ok if wealth from developed nations were transferred to poor nations, every year?<p>You make poor people rich, you make the sick and malnourished healthy, you make the illiterate literate. You don&#x27;t make the rich less rich, or the healthy less healthy or the literate less read.<p>Progress happens in the forward direction, not by pulling people down to make your failure look good.<p>There is a irrational fear here somehow equating wealth and evil. Not sure why people even think that way.