A recent poll reported in the WSJ found 69% of people who had more than $500K in investible assets (that means they had that money to play around with after their house et al) made the money all by themselves. 25% made their money through a combination of working and inheritance and only 4% inherited the money.
When the Democrats say the rich are not paying enough in taxes they intentionally conjure visions of some snooty lout who does nothing for the poor and who spends the days sipping Crystal, nibbling caviar on toast points, and jumping over the tennis net after defeating his butler in a game. They’ve got the class warfare game down to an exact science. Never when they speak of the wealthy do they encourage the vision that some guy or gal spends 15 hours a day at the office CREATING wealth and HIRING others making THEM wealthy, or, at the very least, solvent while making something the world NEEDS.
The top 10% of wage earners pay 70% in all the income taxes.
The lower 10% of wage earners pay 3%.
I never got a job from a poor man.