And you are spot on about who gets squeezed: the average person pays every time, while tax breaks and loopholes for the rich keep growing. It is right out in the open; the same cycle repeats, and regular folks carry the load
Rich individuals run the government for the rich business to prosper, while their citizens are at the same level of slaves who just need to live their life with whatever they can get and just serve and make the life better for their master and the same analogy is happening, but in a modernized way.
Some countries utilize this unfair taxation on the people and even for the rich and try to attract people to their countries, and that's how some countries that used to be deserts now become the trade hubs of the world.