DougR,

There are very few liberals who "hate wealthy people." What liberals tend to hate is corporate interests that act as though the good of wealthy people is more important than the good of non-wealthy people. Particularly if a person becomes wealthy through hard work and creativity, and uses that wealth in a responsible way, few liberals will have a problem with that.

My father is both fairly wealthy AND a liberal. He supports a more progressive tax structure even though he would have to pay more taxes. He thinks it would be worth in order to transfer the "tax relief" to the people for whom the "tax burden" is truly burdensome. If I ever become wealthy (I have siblings, so inheritance won't do it, alas!) it will not change my politics.

I never have hated the wealthy. I just dislike the selfish.