The OP is confused.
We have created a Walmart wage system where the largest group of retail employees do not make enough to survive. This means they cannot be a government revenue source.
The money American workers formerly made in wages/benefits (during the postwar years) currently goes to ownership; hence the Walton family now makes all the surplus income (leaving the employees with only subsistence income).
Because ownership now makes all the surplus you'd think they would have a corresponding tax burden - especially because government stabilizes/defends their overseas oil fields and trade routes. Take a look at where Walmart products are made. Many of these products come from unstable parts of the globe that require a hugely expensive military to safeguard. So of course you'd think The wealthy would have a high tax burden to pay for this stuff. But ... They also benefit from an expensive, government run patent system whereby big brother puts a monopoly fence around the investments of the wealthy. And what about the expensive legal system which ensures that free market contracts are enforced (and thus adds confidence and security to all transactions)?
This stuff is expense and the benefits accrue to the wealthy, who you'd think would pay higher taxes to pay for it.
Nope, not after Reagan. The wealthy - the people making a surplus in our globalized low wage economy - only pay a pittance for the subsidies, bailouts, patents and military defense of their supply chains.
Where do we get the money to cover the shortfall created by Reagan's tax gift to the parasitic rentier class that owns government? We borrow it from future generations of poor workers who can't afford tax lawyers and lobbyists.
It's called redistribution, and it goes upward.
The OP needs to turn off talk radio.
