"It is always amazing to me that the people seeking to keep the product of their own labor are considered "greedy" by the hard Left, but those seeking to steal the labor of others are considered virtuous.

Ah yes, Venezuela, the last refuge of one with nothing to say.
The far better examples are the Scandinavian countries and Germany, but you conveniently overlook them.
The only ones who are stealing anything from anyone, it's the fat cat capitalists who steal the value from the workers on the line who created it.
The fat cats' pay packages ought to be carried on their corporation's books as liabilities, as they produce nothing of value and their compensation packages are obscenely high.
BTW, you DO make an eloquent case for a wealth tax as well as an income tax.