The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.
You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.
The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.
The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes.
Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.
When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer.
The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.