The rich has paid the politicians to make it this way, and I’m saying the reason it hasn’t gone the other way is because the rich & the politicians are butt buddies. I feel like that’s the core of my argument so I’m not sure how it doesn’t make sense.

Ah my bad. I completely agree with this take, this is entirely correct as far as I can tell. I thought you were saying that the owning class will flee if taxes go up, which is what my response is in reference to (it's also what this whole post is about).

Plus none of this is certain anyway, they might flee, they might deal with the taxes, they might just say fuck it and get away with it because if you have billions of dollars, what’s stopping you from hiring a private task force/protective service of your own…?

Nothing is ever certain, I don't have a crystal ball, pretty much anything at all can happen. But we can look at the past and see what the owning class ends up doing when confronted with higher taxes. When we look at the past, when we had higher tax rates, they didn't flee, so I don't consider that a very likely possibility.