Its kind of surprising to me how obvious it has become to compare % as more or less instead of absolute numbers. I dont know anything else but taxes that people

Its kind of surprising to me how obvious it has become to compare % as more or less instead of absolute numbers. I dont know anything else but taxes that people use this notion. 30% of a small number is a lot less than 10% of a massive number. Most definitely PT has paid a multiple of taxes than middle class: millions upon millions of it. The most common justification is the subscription to the punitive usage of taxes: if someone has money, he should be punished more and more for it. Maybe you could use another framework and say, how much of taxes and public services do you consume and how much do you contribute. And I assure you people like PT are very much net providers, whereas middle class will very often be a net consumer.