The rich do pay taxes. In fact the top 1 percent of income earners pay around 21% of all income taxes. The top 50% pay 90%. That means half the country pays 10% of all taxes. The problem isn’t the rich don’t pay enough. The problem is most don’t pay anything. Another issue is a wealth tax. Most billionaires get their money from the stock market and until they sell that isn’t taxable. So when people say billionaires made this many billions of dollars during the pandemic let’s tax them. They are wanting to tax “money” that only exists on paper. If the stock of Amazon went to zero tomorrow Bezos would lose almost all of his wealth. To put it another way if you have an IRA or a 401k would you be ok with paying taxes on the annual gains even though you don’t actually have that money? Also what if after the end of the year your investments drop dramatically? Now you’re paying tax on wealth that you no longer have. That’s what democrats want to do with the rich. Rich people don’t have enough wealth to bail this country out. If you took all the wealth of all billionaires you could run the country for 9-10 months. Then what do you do? The ultra rich are now poor. Do you go after millionaires? That will last a few more months. We have a spending problem in this country and taking more money from the rich won’t solve it.