In this “Viewpoint” Web exclusive, Eliot Spitzer continues his conversation with Glenn Greenwald, author of “With Liberty and Justice for Some” and a contributing writer at Salon.

If people are aware of the activities of the financial elite, I cannot understand why they still buy into the proposition that we should not tax the wealthy because that would be penalizing them for being successful. How about penalizing them for being crooks? Is that a concept we can get behind?