without getting political the wealthy are the heaviest tax group in the US. Its the UBER wealthy that get away with not paying tax. $500K-$1mil most pay effect tax rate with state fed and Prop tax at about 50% people that make north 10mil pay more like 25%. its stems mostly from there ability to pay mostly capital gains, have alot of passive income which can be offest by passive losses, deduct there real estate holdings at 3.75% per year (even thou real estate goes up in value) and they tend to donate large % of money to tax deductible things often there own charity.