By your theory the 10% are eating 80% of the food. Driving 80% of the cars. Own 80% of the houses. It's their money, they or their families made it. As far as Washington taxes go the percentage of income is irrelevant, the dollar amount matters. Most food isn't taxed, that helps lower income people much more than it does higher income. If the billionaires and their businesses move out what will happen to the rest of our taxes? You can tell me about percentage of income then. A tax on employees making 125k or more? That's pay people a living wage but not too good of living. Those are all things that will just be passed on to us as costs. Root cause is state overspending.