My understanding is that progressive taxation is at least partially designed to temper the rise of the kind of robber-baron empires seen at the turn of the last century. Our post-war economy boomed with top-tier tax rates three times what earned income is taxed at today, so it's hard for me to see why anyone would complain about current rock-bottom federal taxation. I'd like to see a return to at least Reagan-era rates.

Personally, I don't care if people's passion and focus in life is amassing money; that's their business. But when they use the money they've accumulated using taxpayer-supported laws and infrastructure to pour money into the campaigns of the Scott Walkers of the world, funding union busters and job exporters and other malefactors, it becomes an issue for me. And now, with the Citizens United decision, there are absolutely no barriers to just outright buying an election, so that we have a de facto government of the very, very rich. Not what the Founding Fathers intended.