Rich people who want to pay more taxes

News this morning NPR had a story about rich people who want to pay more taxes. "..."I do feel that I should pay more taxes — absolutely," Hollender says. "While I don't like how the government spends the money I give them, I do feel that I pay too little.  "These arguments are really about keeping money in the pockets of people who already have too much money," Hollender says......Hollender, co-founder of the eco-products company Seventh Generation, says he doesn't believe in trickle-down economics — the theory that what benefits the rich helps everybody." - source link


This comment made TWW think his basic belief about the liberal mind may be flawed.  TWW thought liberals get uncomfortable with social conditions and want the government to do something to make the discomfort go away as long as someone else to pays for it.  The quote above makes it sound like some (very many?) rich liberals really want to pay more taxes.  But look closer.  Right now you can overpay your taxes and there is nothing to stop the rich liberals from paying more taxes. They can even count their overpayment of taxes as a donation to take on the taxes for next year so they can pay even more in taxes next year than they have to when they overpay their taxes again and on and on.  But it sounds like the rich liberals won't pay more taxes unless other rich people do also. The rich liberals are making themselves into victims and it is unfair the other rich people are not paying more taxes when they claim to be willing to do so.  More liberal moral superiority at work here?  This story also makes TWW wonder where he should buy more dish soap when the current supply runs out.