To live in a society protected by a military, you need to pay taxes.
You lost me very early with this. We don't pay for our government, it pays for the many uses we make of the unit of account, US dollars, it demands back in taxation. It is the need to pay taxes in a specific denomination that the government mandates that drives the use of the currency in deploying goods and services within the private sector and allows the issuing government to provision itself at will.
While not having read the bulk of your article, I can guess at most of its content. You believe that the wealthy must pay more so we can "afford" the things that society offers. If only we had money to spend all things would be wonderful, so it is the wealthy perverting our democracy that is keeping us from obtaining utopia.
Once one realizes that the US Congress controls the purse strings and is the only source of the dollars we need and that taxes don't even fund our government, or that Congress can "afford" anything that can be purchased with US dollars, even without revenue, it becomes rather silly to continually frame spending discussions around our ability to wrench dollars, already created in the private sector by Congress, away from the wealthy.
Until we are willing to learn a new (actually old) language of economics we will continue to frame our problems in the language of our oppressors and subject ourselves to the reality that if we expect them to fund our society it is imperative that they remain wealthy. We should be, instead, making them irrelevant, as they are, to the public purpose and our society's success. I guarantee that doing so will result in much higher tax rates than they would pay otherwise, especially when they are given access to our governing process via campaign funding.
"ANY" suffering in this extremely rich country that can be mitigated with federal dollars is entirely a political decision made because someone in power "benefits" from that suffering, even if it only serves as an example of those who don't function within their system. We don't need their money to create the society we envision as a society. We only need a Congress that shares that vision, and not simply as a campaign issue that can be cast aside between campaigns.
Your heart and intentions are in the right place. Now bring your head into line with that and demand what is guaranteed to us via our constitution and demand that Congress "pay for it" without consideration of revenue or need to balance a meaningless budget.
