Drift,
This is true , but I spoke up in the college setting!
Accounting class, the 1st intro chapter to taxes and how to deal with them.
Teacher quipped the rich get away bla-bla-bla.....
"Excuse me, I disagree"
I then politely relayed a story about a high net worth individual employing hundreds and when I saw the 1040 (In a business at the time that had me doing so)and did the math it was a 50% bracket.
Dead Silence, but I am sure I got some wheels spinning....
Just yesterday I was talking to my son-in-law. He graduated from a midwestern university where his economics professor told the class that people making above eighty thousand a year pay no income taxes. I was stunned (but not real stunned, I had lib profs in college too) by what he said. I told him that I strongly disagree with that statement and told him the top one percent pay almost forty percent of all income taxes.
He looked at me with disbelieving eyes. I told him I could send some economic columns from conservative websites, but he wasn 't interested. He said economic discussions bored him. By the way my son-in-law is no lib. But even non-libs get fed and ultimately believe much of the anti-free market propaganda launched at them by leftist academics.