The truly “Wealthy” don’t pay taxes in the sense people refer too, and never have. Just like corporations, they simply pass on the cost of doing business to someone else, or incorporate, or set up a trust.They are those with the means to not only avert taxation, but are, in fact, those who write the tax laws.
The (rapidly eroding) middle class really pays all of the taxes (production class if you will). I suppose some could say that the “rich” pay taxes, but that depends on where you end middle class, and upperclass, and wealthy.
Claiming that one can “tax the wealthy” is like chasing the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. The truly wealthy are those who are doing the taxing. Just like the original concept of an income tax was meant to be upon the wealthy, the elite wrote not only the tax code, and the loopholes to allow themselves to incorporate (in order not be subject to the taxes), they convinced people to support the taxes that winded up only harming themselves.
By far and large, the sword of justice is foisted upon those who are trying to impose their own “justice” on someone else. Hence the lower class remains in the sullied state, because they are too busy trying to impose regulations on the elite, that they only end up hurting themselves, and the middle class suffers the collateral damage.
” Just like corporations, they simply pass on the cost of doing business ..”
And does that account for many Europeans having relocated to Monte Carlo to avoid confiscatory taxation in their own countries? Or is all that just semantics also? How about all the tax havens in the Caribbean - window dressing?