It's a fair comparison in your mind. This is why people who claim that trump is winning don't see fair play as a real thing. Taxes pay for our government. Rich people pay more taxes because they have more. They resent it. There is an inherent friction between the ultra rich and government. The ultra rich have engaged in sustained campaign to attack their government's very existence because it threatens to take money from them to pay for everything from our roads, police, food and drug safety, clean water, judges, schools and too many other things to mention. The ultra rich buy roads, private security with guns, custom food, industrial water or pristine sources that they keep for themselves, they donate heavily to influence politics and get "like minded" judges appointed for life who are sympathetic to the plight of rich white males as victims and their kids go to most prestigious schools oftentimes for legal bribery in the millions. They want everything privatized because it ensures they can buy and own every thing.

Running up the deficit is their ploy to accomplish this. They have a president that is a grifter who attracts other grifters. They have succeeded in running up the deficit with tax breaks to people who have not returned that money back into the GDP. The tax cuts were a gift to the rich with the added benefit of putting our country deeply in the red so that when it's gets even worse, they will be the ones to cut spending on every program that government administers to everyone except the ultra rich. Their dream is oligarchy run by kleptocrats with the biggest and richest thief at the highest office.



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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.