I agree you don't advertise as "middle class tax hike"! For middle class things, you talk up what's being bought, then argue it's worth paying for. 1/

Just as a matter of technocracy, though, we are likely to need more middle class taxes to cover the universal benefits a civilized society offers. We'll be richer, not poorer, for what we purchase together, though. That's the purpose and point! 2/

We need to tax rich people for largely disjoint reasons, but the principle of equal sacrifice means when we do tax ourselves, we can make lots of headway in eliminating the gulf that bifurcates us into plebs and plutocrats. /fin