Rich is relative; if one says NY is rich, then really, it is a socialist state, where you have uber rich and also poor...take Bloomberg for example. Some are so rich the tax rate doesn’t matter, that’s why Bloomberg, Gates and Buffet all want higher rates because the little secret is they never want anyone else getting to their level, so the higher the better tax rate to them. That keeps the poor dependent on them and their crony politicians and keeps the middle class from ever getting better and even forces some to become poor...
All the liberal propaganda withstanding, no truly rich person pays income tax. It’s not applicable to their revenue streams. Americans, in general, are completely clueless about business and economics.