“You’re also talking about much higher rates when you’re talking about taxing wealthy people into being forced to work in McDonald’s.”
Eventually, they should have to work. You don’t have to agree, but you aren’t going to get my sympathy vote on the argument that the poor wittle rich man might have to actually work an honest day like the rest of us. That’s not a reason to oppose taxes, that’s a reason to support them.
“It’s not changing hands in the same way wages”
Right, because in this change of hands, nobody is actually doing anything to earn it like in the case of wages. Should a person not pay taxes on lottery winnings, since they also didn’t really earn it and it’s not changing hands “the same way as wages?”