1. An idiot is someone who won't pay more in taxes for thing they would end up using at some point like healthcare and roads.
2. We'll make the government care about us, whether we be citizens, prisoners, military personnel, permanent residents or illegal immigrants.
3. It's called keeping the government accountable. See #2.
4. Baby, the rich ain't going to do shit. They can't keep running forever because people got sick of their bullshit. We can still persecute them for tax fraud, put tariffs on their businesses, freeze accounts and put sanctions on their asses. Trickle down economics has been tried for decades and it hasn't delivered.