You missed my point.  Oh well.

The "rich" are not a single group, just like "the poor" and "the blacks". They are composed of many individuals, each with their own goals and abilities, and many come out of supporting higher taxes in better shape because they get subsidies, or because they can survive the taxes and a competitor can't, allowing them to make up the difference in market share. Look at Jim Rogers, Peter Schiff, the Kochs, and then look at Warren Buffet and George Soros. The aforementioned most definitely do NOT want to be taxed, and they are rich.

Anyway, the vast majority of people who pay taxes end up with a net loss. We get roads, but they are paid for (in my own country, at least) with absurdly high gas taxes, are excessively spread out, constantly have inconvenient maintenance, encourage pollution when alternate forms of transportation would be common if roads didn't get a blank check, and they aren't even of especially high quality. We get water plants, but they too aren't especially cheap and are often run by incompetent idiots who allow e. coli into the water or they attempt to make it cleaner by dumping fluoride into the water. We get electricity, but because of monopoly it is generally pretty expensive, not always reliable in bad weather, and requires that individuals be forced out of their homes at gunpoint, given paltry compensation, and forced to leave as the government destroys their house to build a power line. We get the military, which goes to foreign countries to bomb brown people that we have no good reason to bomb, and benefits absolutely no one except a handful of beneficiaries.