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The 1000 people argument is poor. The same logic could be used to justify mistreating a very small racial minority, and we know that is wrong.

If new government spending is really justified, it should be popular enough to fund it in a broad-based way.

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It's about taking slightly more money from the top 1,000 people who have the most money. This is completely different from targeting ethnic minorities.

Progressive taxes are supposed to handle this in a broad-based way, but billionaires can afford to finagle the system so that they pay less in taxes than the rest of us.

In my opinion, people seem very generous and creative in matters that concern other people's money.

Whether it is someone stealing from people who "can afford it", or increase taxes for certain categories that don't include them, people are in no shortage of 'arguments' and seem to find things 'obvious'.

+1.

And if raising taxes on billionaires is unjust there should be broad-based support for not taxing them

I'm not sure that logic holds. Perhaps if "justice" is only point in time. There have been plenty of times in history when minority groups have been subjected to what we today would call an injustice. Simply having broad support would mean that they were just during the time in question and only considered unjust at a later time.

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