Taxes are necessary to have a government that provides defense of the country, law enforcement and basic services.
It makes sense to increase the tax the people and entities who are the least affected by such an increase (ie who can afford it) than it does to instead get that revenue off middle and upper-middle class people whose spending and saving habits it does affect and who are critical to the overall economy and stability of the government.
I'm pretty sure Kobe Bryant and Paris Hilton can afford to pay a higher tax rate and that their spending one way or another isn't going to make a difference in the economy or in our fiscal crisis.
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