I feel as though your understanding of the relationship between wealth and political power is somewhat naive. Rich people can and do seize political power for

I feel as though your understanding of the relationship between wealth and political power is somewhat naive. Rich people can and do seize political power for no greater purpose than to lower their own taxes, and possibly also loot the treasury in the process. The voters do want higher taxes on the rich. But the rich own the news media outlets, and buy the attention and gratitude of the legislators, judges, and prosecutors, and own the contractor businesses that provide elections services to counties and municipalities. Whenever someone asks, "why are we not raising taxes on the rich?", someone has already been well paid to divert the conversation into an acrimonious distraction. Note that the wedge issues commonly used for this purpose are universally of low importance to the wealthy class. What makes you think that the rich will pay what the poor ask of them, when they have no effective means of enforcing their will?