"Tax the rich!" - The dumbest slogan ever.

[HoreTore]

You got it the wrong way, relative wealth. The poor need the money for essentials, the rich don't need money.

Actual need is quite irrelevant when it comes to whether a tax is seen as just. And when did the middle class become "poor"...? I can pay a few % more in tax without noticing it on my standard of living, just as I can pay less and not notice anything. Just like a rich guy. Hence, no reason why we shouldn't pay the same.

Either way, you don't hear stories about starving millionaires and billionaires.

No, but we have plenty of stories of billionares who move to cyprus or some other tax haven.

And the bottom line is that taxing the rich isn't like finding Ali Baba's treasure; there really isn't that much money to collect. There is far more money in raising the tax for the middle class, due to their number.