With people all over the country struggling to pay for food, rent, gas, medical care, and other necessities, is it really too much to ask to have millionaires and billionaires to pay a little more?

The rich already have enough money to live a great lifestyle; it won't hurt them as much to increase their taxes.

Taxing the rich does nothing more than shift money from the private sector, where it is usually invested and spent efficiently, to the government, where it often ends up going to special interests or campaign contributors, or where it's inefficiently wasted in government bureaucracies.

The government side of things, politicians spend other people's money. The success or failure of the spending doesn't matter to them as long as campaign financers are happy and they can attain re-election.