“Sounds like these complaining elites need their taxes raised.”
Yes I agree with this but lets ensure we make a distinction between taxing ‘the elites’ and taxing ‘the corporations’. Because democrats possess a special inability to comprehend the basic economic principle that the cost of goods always gets passed to the consumer. So a tax on ‘the corporation’ means a tax on the consumer. That’s what they mean by ‘tax the rich’. That blindness stems from a sophistry that is absolutely astronomical in scale.
Then that gets muddied because the corporations easily purchase the politicians from both camps. Then the democrats can say “oh... well both sides are guilty!”.
The corporations should be taxed as well. On worldwide income. If they don’t want to pay their employees a decent wage, there should be an additional tax for every employee they have receiving government benefits to recoup the cost. The problem is, these mega corporations profiteered extensively from Covid while the small businesses went under. It’s time for a reckoning and to relieve the tax burden on the middle class.