Kevin Duffy on how a progressive sees taxation

This is how a progressive sees taxation: 

1) Taxes are a benefit to the common good. 

2) Taxes are the price of freedom. 

3) The rich hire accountants to avoid paying their fair share. 

4) The rich have nearly all of the wealth (an unfair distribution). 

5) Those at the bottom pay all the taxes (even though the rich have all the money); very unfair. 

6) The government is constantly starved for "revenue" so those at the bottom suffer even more. 

Ok, admittedly, this is an exaggeration, but there is a lot of truth to this, don't you think?

~ Kevin Duffy, Facebook post, March 12, 2021