1) Do you see how some folks are more risk tolerant, more entreprenuerially minded, have more business savvy, than others?
2) Do you see how offering those people tax shelters that benefit them to steer their monies into job creating/tax revenue generating sectors?
3) Are you really butt-hurt if those that CREATE the jobs and take all the risk actually earn more?
4) Do you really feel they should be penalized by paying a GREATER share?
1) Yes.
2) I think "shelter" might bne the wrong word, but certainly deductions and credits.
3) No, they should earn more
4) They are not being penalized. They are earning more, even after taxes are applied in a progressive structure. They are also being taxed according the the degree of benefit they recieve from government investments in human capital, infrastructure, security, etc.