Ronald Regan, as a movie star, regularly <i>didn&#x27;t</i> make movies precisely because the progressive tax system would head into confiscatory levels making the effort worthless to him. Such rates denied both the public at large from products they wanted, and the government tax revenue. I don&#x27;t want my world to actively discourage the talented from producing.<p>I want to <i>encourage</i> people to make insane amounts of money, because that is largely the result of far-and-above productivity which everyone else benefits from. Jobs are created, desirable products&#x2F;services are generated at affordable costs, money is invested (even banked &quot;cash&quot; gets loaned, and extravagant luxuries create markets), and the general standard of living is raised.<p>The cost of discouraging effort is <i>never</i> included in these &quot;soak the rich, redistribute the wealth&quot; equations.