The “tax the rich” mantra stems from the belief that society has its problems (homelessness, poverty, drugs, dysfunctional schools and hospitals…) because the government is so poor, so broke, that if only they could take some money from the billionaires, they would fix all those issues. Which is BS, because the gov certainly has a lot of money, plenty, more than enough to do all that and then some. And if they would tax the rich, all the money would sink into the pit of corruption and nothing would change.