You sound like you’ve never lived without money. Most people drawing welfare payments are working full time or multiple part time jobs that fail to pay a living wage. Taking money back from people who work hard to exploit and extract value from everyone beneath them merely rights a power imbalance. You know US workers are deprived of roughly $15B a year through wage theft? It’s also incredibly narrow minded to believe that the only measure of contributing to society is a person’s income.

This is interesting because it's the same logic either way -

"taking from people who work hard (the working class or billionaires) to give it to people who live off other peoples hard effort (billionaires or poor people)

In 2026 capitalism who is living off whom? Who is really toiling or creating utility?

Also to be clear, regressive taxes is ghoulish.

Fascinating. Does this include inheritance, or is that an exception to your rule.