MSDOS KAPITAL posted:

Also the rich already complain about their money being taken to educate kids and save the planet, and the political response has been to take less of their money at the expense of not educating kids and ruining the planet. So on an empirical basis the argument falls flat.

Frankly I don't think "we're taking their money because they have too loving much of it" is all that bad a take. I'm convinced. It's shorter and simpler and more to the point than having to justify whatever you're going to pay for with the taxes.