"The rest of us?" Successful people with successful businesses pay the highest rate of taxes. 50% of "the rest of us" pay no taxes at all.
Shakespeare wrote the books, the rest of us read them; Beethoven wrote the music, the rest of us listen; the Wright brothers built the plane, the rest of us ride on them. The value to society from the creator/ innovator/ entrepreneur is in the product, not the percentage that the rest of us can skim off the profits. Leftists don’t seem to understand this or don’t want to admit it.