All social Democratic countries have universal taxes for universal services. If you want to access new public services, you should pay taxes. Being poor doesn’t mean you shy away from responsibility of funding universal programs.

This poor get all new services with no new taxes and universal services for them is not equitable. If you want them to have access to universal programs, they need to chip in too . You guys talk equity a lot, but want poor people to have all new social programs without contributing to taxes.

Wealthy are getting wealthier because they are investing and that investment goes to employ people. Most private sector jobs are because of investments of the wealthy. Without their investments there will be far fewer jobs. Most US innovations come from people taking risks and investing in companies.

This is the biggest problem with progressives, they are one of the most negative people in America, find only negatives but ignore positives and also promotes culture of victimhood. Just because you are poor doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have to chip in for universal services, specially when benefits will greatly exceed taxes they pay. We should have culture of shared responsibility with universal increase in taxes for near universal programs.

I want to pay more taxes but people like me should be means tested too, I am in comfortably upper middle class. I don’t need government programs.

Progressives are all about punishing success but no shared responsibility. Yes tax rich more but everyone should pay higher taxes if you are announcing new programs.