Not quite as simple as that. We have seen in recent weeks evidence that the super rich and their companies and organisations are avoiding payment of 'some', if not all taxes. In the past we have seen senior bank executives treating public money as their own. Many (not all of course) rich companies, governed by rich executives, are responsible for out sourcing jobs and for underpayment of their staff. When you are that rich and you have that power there are many advantages you can take that are not open to the common man.
In my experience as a socialist of many years standing, socialists want a fair society, they do not, generally, have a problem with taxation and they certainly do not hold ALL wealthy people with suspicion. What they do, however, is to question. They question the rich and the powerful, not because those people are crooked but because it is easier for them to be so. Taxes are paid for the good of society and society decides, by its representatives, how that tax should be paid.
So I, for example, am pleased if my taxes go towards the supply of libraries because I enjoy the service they offer. I am not pleased to find that the rich and powerful are taking advantage of my taxes and not contributing themselves.
Socialists would like to see .... read this very carefully because it is true .... socialists would like to see equal opportunities, equal use of the law, and total honesty. Socialists want all people to have better lives, not just the greedy and immoral. Socilaists DO NOT advocate mass poverty, that is a myth supported by the poor fools who follow the rich from table to table in the hope of a crumb or two.
We know that far from being able to exist in this world by their own efforts alone, ordinary people need other ordinary people. There is no hatred of the rich but there is certainly a degree of mistrust.
The message really is that we are all socialists apart from those who can afford to live beyond the law and good society.
Glad to welcome you aboard - leave your gun at the door.
