The very rich have enough money & influence not to pay the way those just a rung or two down the ladder will. They can play marxist games and trust-fund revolutionary without having to pay the cost. They can holler "Soak the rich" all day long and it won;t cost them a dime. And besides, high tax/high-reg regimes cast the current social status in amber. So, if everyone does pay a bit or all are made poorer by taxes/regs, the very rich at the top will remain hte richest at the top.
The very very rich, perhaps.....but the lower 50% of income earners pay no income tax and often receive some type of taxpayer paid aid.
There are very few people in those real high bazillion dollar wealth.......and if they are receiving no paychecks they don't pay income tax they pay 15% tax on what their portfolios earn. However, not all people who are in that situations are bizarrely wealthy; I receive most of my income from what my stocks & bonds earn, and trust me, I ain't rich!
There are plenty of business owners and such who have a lot of wealth, often tied up in properties, as well.
Policritters love going after them without any care as to the harm they really do.
I wonder how many people inherit their parents' farms and businesses only to have to sell it all to pay inheritance taxes? "Theft under colour of the law," is what I consider THAT to be.