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However, it’s OP [middle class] money mostly that they use. If they used their own money nobody would care.

It seems to me the harder that one has to work to attain an element of success, the more conservative they will become.

"...super rich tend to be liberal for subconscious recognition that placating the poor and credit enslaved contributes to the status quo and therefore secures their wealth and influence."

Ben Carson explains this syndrome in his book. I'll find the quote and get back...

I’ve been thinking about this theory that super rich tend to be liberal for subconscious recognition that placating the poor and credit enslaved contributes to the status quo and therefore secures their wealth and influence. However, it’s OP [middle class] money mostly that they use. If they used their own money nobody would care.

Two definitions exist for the term middle class. The first definition is of median-income households. The second one is of professionals - lawyers, doctors, engineers, etc, who make a living from their wits. Above them are the landed rich and below them are blue collar workers. In terms of income, however, they are anything but in the middle. A couple of engineers pulling in 75K apiece are in the top 10% of household incomes. And $200K households are in the top 5%. So when tax rates are hiked for $500K households, they are assuredly only hiking them for the top several % of high-income earners.

The issue isn't whose taxes get hiked - it's definitely not middle-income people - it's the effect of excessive taxation on capital formation, which affects growth rates and overall income levels. The higher the taxes, the lower the salaries. There is no free lunch.

"I’ve been thinking about this theory that super rich tend to be liberal for subconscious recognition that placating the poor and credit enslaved contributes to the status quo and therefore secures their wealth and influence.
However, it’s OP [middle class] money mostly that they use. If they used their own money nobody would care."

From Dr. Ben Carson's book "One Nation":

[Elites] -- "For the most part, they are incapable of seeing any hypocrisy in their own lives while examining with a microscope every facet of their perceived opponents' lives. They are happy to give away other people's money, but guard their own purse strings possessively. The sad thing is that they have become so wise in their own eyes that they have lost objectivity, thus frequently rendering themselves quite useless when it comes to truly improving the lot of the downtrodden in our society."