Envy

      Webster's American Dictionary defines this word as:

"1. discontent and ill will over another's advantages, possessions, etc. 2. desire for something belonging to another".

Envy is exactly what the 10th commandment says you should not do -

“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.”

       Yet, under the guise of "social justice" and being "fair", this is exactly what the Left is constantly preaching. They always propose increasing taxes on the "rich", because they are not paying their "fair share", although based on 2008 IRS figures (the latest available) the top 10% of income earners paid 70% of all income taxes collected, but I have never heard anyone give an exact figure as to what their "fair share" is. Is it 80%, 90%, or 100%? The bottom 45% pay no taxes at all and some of those receive refunds although they paid no taxes.
       This is the Left's message, used  to play on the emotions of the American people, commonly referred to as "class warfare" and it works, because most people always want more, and seeing people with "more" causes them "envy", but like "jealousy", envy will eat you alive. If the "rich" pay more in taxes it will not help anyone else. All it will do is bring the top towards the bottom, not the other way around. It will damage the economy and will make everyone worse off, but that is exactly what the Left wants - everyone more dependent on a centralized, overbearing government, with it's resulting loss of freedoms. Why should hard working Americans pay for some people to sit on their butts and live off government handouts. That is not the America envisioned by our Founding Fathers, it is the America envisioned by the current crop of Leftie, Socialist creeps who want to control how you live. I am all in favor of helping people who are truly down and out, but that is not the case today. There are too many people who won't take a job because it doesn't pay them $100,000 a year with full medical benefits and a good pension plan. They would rather sit around and collect their government check, paid for by people who are too proud to do that, and go out and support themselves and the goof offs. That has to stop.
       There is absolutely nothing preventing anyone from achieving the American Dream. It has been done time after time by ordinary people. All it takes is an idea, and hard work. There is nothing stopping you. You too, can be among the "rich", if you are willing to work for it.