The premise of such posts is that if people were aware of who was getting a tax cut they would be against it. That is not a premise, but a corollary from th

The premise of such posts is that if people were aware of who was getting a tax cut they would be against it. That is not a premise, but a corollary from the conclusion. The conclusion is that people wish for a distribution of wealth that is vastly different from the actual wealth distribution. The corollary is that they would not support measures that retain the status quo or skew the distribution further from their expressed optimum. Put another way: the premise is that everyone is purely motivated by self-interest. How on earth is that 'putting the same thing in another way'? The richest quintile thinks the poorest quintile should be more wealthy. If they took that conclusion from these statistics to their logical consequence, they would immediately donate the relevant portion of their wealth and allow it to be redistributed. If anything, the numbers suggest rational people would act in an altruistic way to change things towards their expressed optimal wealth distribution.