as i've traveled this nearly-great land, i've been asked by many people just like you - it's like an army of little fucking clones - "senator sartwell, why do you support tax cuts for the rich?" well i can tell you this: i don't do it to stimulate the economy, which should be starved like a dangerous beast. i do it because all my life i have been committed to one simple moral imperative: give people what they need. the poor need leisure in order to develop their higher sensibilities; i offer them unemployment without checks. and the rich? the rich need money, or they would likely not be rich.
let's not pretend that we're all the same or that human needs aren't socially articulated. the need for money is not a primal or instinctual need, but it is nevertheless very real to those who feel it. at one time people 'needed' the approval of the gods: the need was real even if the gods were not. why does a cannibal devour human flesh? we're not really sure, but we know that the government must provide human flesh to the cannibal. (i am sponsoring legislation to that effect again this year in the senate. i expect it to pass, because before being democrats or republicans, all senators are americans and cannibals.)
decent folk like you and me do not understand the rich man's need for $$, just as we don't understand the need to have sex with people of our own gender or listen to sting or live in a city. but simple justice demands that we satisfy it. rich people are still people, and we should help them preserve whatever dignity they can still simulate. when you ask who, in our society, should have the money, the answer is almost tautologous: the rich should have the money; whoever actually does have the money is rich. a person of fabulous wealth without money is in a difficult predicament! on the other hand, we expect the poor to be without money (the connection is virtually conceptual), and you rarely see a destitute person who's extremely wealthy. taking money from rich people, or giving money to poor people, enacts the most wretched logical contradiction.
just as black people speak in ebonics, though we understand them not, just as women are adrift on a stormy sea of incomprehensible feelings, the rich have money: it is part of their very identity. i will defend with all the passion and hope i can muster in a world like this your right to whatever you are under the delusion that you require.