[kmos17]

The poor pay taxes through sales and payroll taxes, so it’s not just income tax, I think it’s a fairly safe assumption that it represents a larger share of their income than it does to rich people.

Most billionaires don’t even earn money from a salary, but instead from lower taxed capital gains.

But reducing the argument to rich vs. poor also misses out how unfair the tax system is to the middle class of wage earners in the US.