The ignorance bestowed upon liberals is the result of a combination of bureacratic language and media-bias. The devastating effect of this surface-based thinking is a mindset not of economic truth, but of emotional falsity.
The danger of such emotional thought has created an administration that seeks to form a centralized government, a government that will have a calamitous effect on our already failing economy.
The phrase, "we need to raise taxes on the 'rich' in order for everyone to have their 'fair share'" is one of the benighted phrases liberals use when referring to income taxation. This surfaced-based mindset is based solely on emotional feeling and completely IGNORES the economic implications of such taxation.
Let me explain a simple reaction that results from media spin and bureacratic diction. MSNBC does a story on a poor broken-home family that is struggling to make ends meet. Barack Obama says we need "change" and Chris Mathews says we need to redistribute the wealth. In response, the viewer impetuously approves of progressive taxation without conducting any of their own investigative groundwork.
There are two different ways to view the upper class, emotionally and economically. The emotional evaluation is equivalent to the MSNBC dissolution. A tv-watching fool gets his feathers ruffled and begins to look at the wealthy as greedy, undeserving people who are in need of COERCED dispensation. This is the mindset that the American people receive when they are too uninitiated to think for themselves.
Analyzing the upper class with an economic viewpoint, which would result from overstepping the inherently liberal response, would be to see the "rich" as investors, rather than greedy monsters. Some may be greedy monsters, but is it worth it to punish them at the expense of national growth and economic prosperity?
Statistical analysis shows that when you tax the "rich", you are taxing the investors of small businesses, aka the venture capitalists. Slapping VC's with outrageous tax increases ENCOURAGES them to bury their money into tax-sheltered funds and discourages the infusion of their money into the heart of our economy.
A lesson for the ignorant. The American people need to try to be less stupid.