Maybe she needs to take some basic math classes.
http://www.ntu.org/tax-basics/who-pays-income-taxes.html
She portrays the top income earners as people that are dodging taxes or paying nothing. In reality, the vast majority of federal income tax is paid for by the top 10% of income earners. How is that not paying their share? You can always ask them to pay more, but I wouldn't portray them as some kind of opportunistic thieves dodging their responsibilities. Seems to me, she's just lying to the public and trying to generate populist support. Shame she can't discuss the real facts in an intelligent manner.
Even more interesting is that the top 1% accounts for 20% of the gross earnings, but pays 40% of the tax. They're paying double the tax burden. Maybe they could pay more, but how does that correlate to them "not paying their fair share".
Certainly, policies can be undertaken to improve the income distribution in this country - education seems to be the key for that, but simply demanding that money get redistributed is not in line with the constitution or the founding ideals of this country.
sonicare
Yea those poor rich people....now they have to downgrade their private airplane and cruiseliner. Percentage wise you may be correct, but you don't mention that 1% of a rich persons yearly income is several times that of even a middle classes person's 100% income. Also, rich people have been increasing their share of the wealth available, increasing the gap between the rich and the poor. Meanwhile, minimum wage can't even keep up with inflation. I am not anti rich, but I am anti greed. there needs to be some new reform to help shrink the gaping gap between the highest and lowest earners. I personally think that there should be some ratio between what the top earner and lowest earner in a company can make. So if some fat cats at the top want to give themselves bonuses and salary hikes they have to do it for the lower earners at the same time. 
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