A good question is why Person A is "liberal" and Person B is "conservative". Is it heritage? Genetics? Life experience? Some of it is age, younger folks tend to be much more idealistic, and liberal. They see wealth disparities and it seems obvious to take from "B" and give to "A". Later in life they might possible get jaded on that, or start to understand the downsides to that basic equation.
Some of it is religious of course, or tradition. A lot of it is where one lives, I think, folks in urban areas see a need for large government and central "control", if you will. Rural folks are much more self sufficient. Suburbanites are "in the middle" often as not.
I live in about as urban an environment as anyone here I suspect. I'm OK paying for "street cleaners", which we have. My taxes are rather exorbitant. I moved here knowing that. I'm OK paying for parks, rural folks don't need that. They live in a "park". I'm OK with heavy zoning ordnances here, rural folks are more itolated. We have a local police force here in addition to the city police, I'm fine with that too. Am I a "liberal"? In some ways, probably so, in others not, I don't really like either term applied to me.
Would I like to tax "billionaires"? That depends on how, I haven't seen any serious legal proposals that would manage that realistically, I know Lix warren has proposed a wealth tax which has all sorts of problems (I don't think she's very smart about it).
I'm also familiar with Hauser's "Law", which isn't a law, but is a pretty remarkable trendline. I also believe we're spending way too much for what we take in and that will end us, eventually.
