None of that applies here Nilsen.
First off, if you tax the "rich", they merely pass it on to the next guy down the ladder. You can count on the fact that wealthy people figure their time and effot is worth $X. Now if you tax $X until it becomes $x, then they'll just charge more until they get $X again.
With lower taxes revenues are up, the economy is growing, unemployment is low, and the deficit is beginning to come under control again. Hell, even the trade deficit is shrinking.
Even the liberals who love taxes, and will do anything they can to justify them eventually have to acknowledge that taxes on the "rich" or corporations are only passed on to the end user of the product or service. Witness the idiots in California who tried to enact a special tax on oil companies in California. They knew if they could get the tax to pass, the cost of the tax would merely end up as a burden on the end users. So in the new tax bill they placed a provision prohibiting the oil companies from passing the cost to them of the new tax on to the consumer.
Oh, by the way, go look up what percentage of the overall revenues each tax bracket pays in the U.S. The upper brackets pay the vast majority of the tax revenue collected.
