Lets see they spend our money to rifle through our private emails. They spend our money to feel up our children at airports, and take naked pictures of our daughters and wives. They spend our money to punish us for not buying their insurance. They spend our money to create a national police force, just as powerful as our army is so they can kill us on order from the scum bag in chief.If that's not "revenge" motivation, what is?
You say "wealth isn't infinite." The amount of "wealth" we can "invent" is greater than the number of atoms in the universe. Just keep adding zeroes. It's not that hard to create wealth.
Rush Limbaugh? Never listened to his show... not even once.
Of course it's not revenge. Progressive taxation is a reasonable principle, even if we were to assume that free markets worked perfectly, and that human nature always saw altruism triumph. It is a way of assigning resources in a way that tend to benefit all, rather than only the narrow interests of a few. Left to individuals to work out, there would be no end of bickering and self-serving. And markets and human nature are far from perfect.
Tax supports government, and government supports civilization. If you think governments role should be limited to things like the military and police, pick up a copy of one of Charles Dickens works. He described such a state of affairs.
Progressive taxation and "assigning resources" is only a reasonable idea if you're stupid enough to believe a relatively small group of politicians and bureaucrats are wise and all-knowing enough to run the economy better than the collective decisions of millions of people going about their personal business.
Clearly we are just too stupid to take care of ourselves. I mean who in their right mind would do these things to themselves?