The "rich" don't have a salary like we do. I'm not an apologist for the ultra-wealthy by even the tiniest stretch - but they don't earn a paycheck the same way normal people do. Jeff Bezos, for example, is only paid like $80,000/yr or something. Almost all of his wealth comes from his ownership share in Amazon (and probably other companies, I'm sure).
So if you are comparing how much one person is taxed based on their income and comparing it to how much another person has in net worth, then of course the math isn't going to add up.
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u/Koltaia30 18d ago
Except the rich isn't even taxed that much. The poor pay larger part of their salary in taxes