Why do Conservatives always defend the rich? They don't need you lot to White Knight for them. They couldn't give less of a shit about us or our peasant struggles. -blam!- em all.

EAT THE RICH

Excellent, a political topic that is actually interesting. So "fair share" is clearly a bad argument in that it doesn't make a lot of sense on its own, but also a good argument in that it's an excellent political message and a way to frame a conversation around government services. Politicians don't say "the rich should pay their fair share" and leave it at that, they say it as part of an argument for funding the government programs they think should be implemented. And that does get us to a more reasonable place, where the core of the argument is that "I want to do the thing, I need a way to pay for it, and progressive taxation is a viable and politically palatable way to do it". DemocRATS do talk about the tax code in isolation as well, but it's usually reactionary to changes that Republicans make, since a) that's their method for effecting change and b) it is broadly unpopular and explicitly designed to give a lot of money to people who already have a huge amount of it. So you see criticisms about how the recent tax cuts are overwhelmingly skewed towards the rich, etc. Politicians will criticize "loopholes" (deductions that favor the rich) like carried interest, changes to the estate tax and AMT, general changes to base rates, corporate tax cuts (especially pass-through!), etc. Of course, we are now also finding alternative funding sources that don't require anyone to pay their fair share, such as $1.5T of free money that Republicans found hidden in the budget (they are the fiscally responsible party after all), which would require no tax increases for a variety of big-spending programs.

And republicans say there’s no wage gap. This is proof.