The trick isn't getting them to pay the majority of income tax, the trick nobody has succeeded at (but desperately want to) is to get them not to want a proport

The trick isn't getting them to pay the majority of income tax, the trick nobody has succeeded at (but desperately want to) is to get them not to want a proportionally larger say in the government for that money. IE people want rich folks to simultaneously pay most of the money the government is getting from income taxes but also 1. Not get a larger say automatically 2. Not spend a lot of money on politics to try to get that larger say. Regardless of whether one thinks these are good goals, neither is really happening right now, nor has it ever really happened (at least in the US). (and the position that you just have to take away enough of their money through taxes that they can't afford to do that is clearly silly in a variety of ways. About the only thing it shows is that you can't scale your government effectively)