because they still view their income as earned. even when in most cases they are extracting wealth off the labor of others or from moving funds around. it's just greed.  the same reason a person makes money from the environment in and opportunities given from one state. only to bail after making money to another.   total bs being you're ignoring all the other forms of taxes. parole, sales and so on. stuff that impacts middle and lower class the most. plus as a percentage of total income the wealthy pay the least. never mind issues of subsidies within industries that directly feed wealth into the pockets of investors at the cost of everyone else.
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