Tyrants generate class warfare.
Your statement is true, but class envy will always exist, even without tyrants.
As a side note, I think Obama and the Democrats could actually make a case of increased taxes for the “rich” if they defined the rich as something like anyone who recieves $ 1,000,000 a year. In fact, if the Dems or the Repubs shifted the tax base off of anyone making less then $250,000 per year, he or they could get a huge ground swell of support.
I just watched a documentary done by the great grandson of one of the Johnson and Johnson founders, called something like “the 1 percent”. It is very eye opening and disturbing how super wealthy some people are and how many breaks they still get from the government and how they influence the government and how they get away with so much. I think that the super rich should take more steps to publicize how they contribute to the community and country, or we will see something here in the United States like the French Revolution.
Envy is the mother of tyranny. Just ask the Founding Fathers. That’s why they wrote the Constitution.