Well actually the rich pay a higher rate, in income....but yes we all pay the same rates as to cap gains, property, sales etc..However there is a huge discrepancy between what percentage of wealth is taxed between the haves and have-nots.There are two types of property taxes that state and local govt levy, a personal property tax, ie cars, boats....real estate is on, well real estate. The tax rates vary state to state, and the value of the property being taxed is appraised by the Govt, then taxed. The rates are the same for all citizens in the State or locality. This tax like a sales is based on consumption of the taxed
The Average American Pay Tax on Half of Their Wealth, Shouldn't Rich Americans? - CounterPunch.org
"Now let’s shift to the other end of the American wealth spectrum, to the poorest 50 percent of Americans.
"Taken as a group, the Federal Reserve calculates, these Americans own less real estate than America’s richest 1 percent, $3.85 trillion of taxable property compared to the $4.48 trillion-worth that the ultra-rich hold.
"But this $3.85 trillion in taxable property makes up most of the assets — 52 percent — that America’s poorer half holds.
"So we have a situation where America’s bottom half pays an annual wealth tax on over half its wealth and America’s top 1 percent pays no annual tax on almost 90 percent of its wealth."
They may pay a higher right per their income total, but way less dollars, but that's merely because they don't have as much wealth saved up.