You want to increase taxes for the wealthy? How about *lowering* taxes for the not-so-wealthy? How about spending the taxes more wisely, such as not spending 10 times more on military expenditures than the next 12 countries combined, including Russia and China. How about using those taxes to send more aid to American citizens than to Ukraine, a country that's no different than the one invading it.
Raising taxes on the wealthy encourages them to move their money out of the country, and thus out of the economy. When those wealthy run businesses, that means jobs moved out of the country. Why do you think there was an economic boom while Trump was in office?
(But I know, you'll try to make the claim that that was thanks to Obama, not Trump, while somehow denying that the drastic increase in racial hostilities was thanks to Obama, not Trump.)
So yes, cutting taxes on the wealthy *does* help out the poor and middle class.
And for the record, the wealthy in America, the top one percent, as of just a year or two before covid, pay about 27% of their income in taxes, about 40% of all the taxes paid in America. The rest, the poor and middle class, pay only 4% of their income.
When it comes to being strictly fair, one could say the *poor* should be paying more taxes.
