Overall even the rich benefit from higher taxes if the middle class had more income today most of them would have been spending it on things the rich provide.

Overall even the rich benefit from higher taxes if the middle class had more income today most of them would have been spending it on things the rich provide. Today by squeezing the middle class and lower middle class they might be making money but over long term with the middle class having lower disposable income they will be spending less so hurt the higher classes as well.