not true.......
its called Social Security.....when you richies reach the $80,000 bracket you do not pay anymore....
so, in essence, the poorer and the middling classes pay as great a proportion of their income to pay for social services as do the rich....
and as far as all this "charity" that the "rich" toss around......if you read at all you will find that the American "rich" are abysmal in donating to true charities....
in fact, the biggest contributors to charity/church/civic groups etc are the working people and the middle class people.....PROPORTIONATLY of course....
But you do have that class of "rich" folk who donate with an eye for personal benefit....or tax deduction when they need it...ala Ted Turner...who "donated" a bunch of his land surrounding his ranch in Montana to the Nature Conservancy...
..to what end?.
..well, he gets a great deduction , can prohibit any neighbors from building on his "donation" and he looks so great to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and others.......
And we have that class of "rich" folk like the Kennedys who donate more of the middle class's money so they get personal benefit of the poor electing them. I very much doubt the Kennedys would build a school or library ---not out of their own money.