Raising taxes on the rich is unjustified from a moral and pragmatic point of view. Everyone has the right to keep the fruits of their labor, and asking them to give up more than they need from their basket is truly unfair. The “Founding Fathers” never intended to create a nation in which its citizens paid nearly half of everything they paid. earned simply to give everything to the government, such a taxation system. So why is this justified in our judicial empire today? Most in the United States support the fact that people who earn more should pay more in individual taxes. I will instead refute this claim and assert that the “rich” actually already pay more in individual taxes than the lower classes. The “rich don't pay their fair share” is perhaps one of the most common myths in America. politics. Why not go to the hard facts and statistics on this theory to clear things up. Statistics show that the taxes paid by the bottom 40% of the lowest income earners are about 6% of taxes, while the richest 40% pay about 85% of taxes, or about fourteen times that percentage. Program...