I think taxes should be based on a 5-year rolling average, to ease the burden for people who have high income only once in their life. Winning the lottery or patenting an invention that makes you rich is the American dream. Let’s tax high earners but show some lenience for folks who have a once in a lifetime windfall.
Good for you, I’m glad you aleady recognize your opinion is unpopular. Maybe you’d be happier with a wealth tax instead of an income tax, where they look at the grand total of everything you own instead of what you brought in recently.