Don't the rich already pay income taxes at under half the rate of everyone else?

The rich are paying hardly any taxes relative to their income. The tax burden is on the average person, it seems wrong for the government to focus on making the rich more comfortable.

Its even more wrong when the US is spending like mad and can't pay for any of it.

__________________
"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. " — John Stuart Mill