Jeffrey Epstein is lower than pond scum by almost any rationale. That said, "raising taxes on the wealthy" is just too simplistic a "fix" for a complicated problem. Rather than jumping to "redistributing the wealth" as the first (and only ever) plan of action-- why don't we instead work to fix the schools, get rid of all of the liberal-bias bullshit, and just start working to help everybody have a better understanding of wealth, what it is, where it comes from, how you get it, what to do with it after you get some, etc. Then work to help people learn how to think critically and to think about long-term solutions to systemic issues. Help people entrepreneur their way out of poverty and hard times. And give them some real honest and earnest public support. Sure some of them are going to fail, but a lot more of them are going to succeed. And if we start a program of gooming young people to think creatively and accept challenges instead of throwing pipe bombs and crying about "Muh Racism" we might build a society that is better grounded in the things that really matter-- like honor, hard work, community, raising families, education instead of getting bogged down by the ephemeral fickle things that twitter by without value.

You can call it tribalism I suppose, but I call it influence peddling and corruption. You don’t fight that by taxing the rich or busting up monopolies. I’m not sure what monopoly Epstein owns anyway. No, you fight this by cracking down on corrupt officials who let the Epsteins of this world skate.

This is not likely a return to a neo feudalism. It is the result of human instinct towards tribalism. Democracy and capitalism are not natural to humans. Still the combination of the two in the last 300 years has raised more people from poverty, extended the lifespan and provided more advances than all the millinias of human civilization. Both systems are cyclical. About 130 years ago in the USA we had the robber barons. Railroads, steel, coal, oil, shipping. Carnegie, Getty, Morgan, Vanderbuilt, Rockefeller and others. Today we have Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates, Musk and others. Those in this tier and the concentric economic tiers that service and interact together we're then and are now an elite. The elite are a tribe. They see themselves as most special and the instinct is to favor the kin and the friend. Teddy Rooservelt knew this tribe as he was from it. But his interactions in the west and in the Spanish American War caused him to experience life amongst the most common while accomplishing uncommon feats of bravery, valor and self sacrifice. In this he trust busted the fat elites. It is what is needed today. Not taxes which is more power and capital to a bloated government. But the break up of the monopoly clubs. More opportunity and capital to more PEOPLE. This makes for innovations, competitions, market expansion and growth. Raise taxes you do the opposite...Do you see the light yet!