Wealthy People Should Pay More in Taxes Because They Can - He Said

The other day, I was in Starbucks, and I was having a conversation, a highly charged political conversation with a card-carrying Democrat.
He told me I was too young to retire, and I explained to him that I had sold my business, and it didn't make sense to me to start another one, risk capital, and deal with the incessant over regulations, not to mention ObamaCare, or the harassment of being taxed for making over $250,000 income.
He was livid, he said I should go back to work and produce, and pay the higher taxes.
Okay so, let's talk about this for second shall we? Indeed, I asked him why wealthy people should pay more in taxes.
He said that; "wealthy people should pay more taxes because they can," and yes, I've already heard this argument from Bill Clinton in an interview on his latest book on C-SPAN.
However that argument is easily defeated, and it makes no sense, further, I asked him specifically; "what sort of volunteer things you do to help poor people?" You see, I wanted to know if he was volunteering at the local homeless shelter, or if he was bringing food to the local food bank, or if he was letting someone who was poverty struck and homeless to live in the extra room in his home.
No, it turns out he wasn't doing any of that, which didn't surprise me of course.
I looked at him funny and I asked; "why not? Don't you have an extra room in your home?" I asked.
He said he did, in fact he now has two, and I said "well you should let a homeless person stay there for free.
He said why would I do that?" I said "because you can.
" You see, I believe that everyone should help their fellow man, because it's the right thing to do, not because the government makes you do it, or because the government decides it's okay to steal your money and redistribute it.
It's not for your government to decide how you spend your money, it's your money, therefore your choice.
You earned it, it's yours, and no one else is entitled to it.
They could've earned that same money themselves, had they chosen to make the right choices, and earn it on their own.
Why is it that they would be entitled to more taxes from those who produce more automatically? It isn't, and it's a false argument, and whereas, it might sound good, or feasibly acceptable to a large society, it really is the epitome of picking on minorities.
Especially because the wealthy people are only a small percentage compared to the whole.
So it blows me away that folks will pick on the minorities in this way.
I thought we were beyond that now? If we charge more taxes to wealthier people, then fewer will ever wish to become wealthy, therefore there will be fewer wealthy people, and less productivity in our society.
Fewer people will start businesses and employ more people, thus enabling those new employees to fend for themselves, now having the ability to do so.
Everyone should pay the exact same amount of tax by percentage, and no one should have to pay more.
In reality if we wanted to have a staggered scale, wealthy people should pay less, as an incentive for other people to try harder, produce more, and become wealthy themselves.
If everyone produced more and had more wealth we wouldn't need any social programs in the first place.
Redistribution of wealth by way of government is practically a socialist motif.
FYI: socialism has never worked long-term in any nation in all of recorded history.
It is not progressive, socialism is regressive.
Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.