How are they paying any tax? They don’t count their income as income and they consue relatively little compared to income...that is my complaint about the VAT...everyone has to purchase basic things to live...some people will struggle to do that...high earners, that’s nothing to them...
I am not a “tax the rich” person, but I think taxing people equally is not too much to ask.
“They don’t count their income as income ....”
Sounds like you are only making an argument in favor of ALL federal taxation being consumption based. If so, then I agree.
The income tax was invented to tax the rich. A bad and immoral plan from the beginning. Then eventually congress spent enough that you and me necessarily now are considered “the rich.”