Here. How to get rich in the USA. Also, the rich _do_ pay more
in taxes: The USA has a simple model for getting wealth, besides
inheritance: a) invest in stocks/bonds b) run a business or more
c) own businesses/holding company d) real estate.
Within real estate you have: buy/sell land/properties and the
most lucritive and the easiest to start? Rentals. Most new rich
in the USA got rich not through a b or c, but through d. We
don't tax rental income. It's for a good reason though: it gives
incentive for people to own apartment buildings. This controls
the potential for a bad homeless problem, at least in theory.
So, that's how to get rich in the USA in a nutshell. I think
there are also a lot of loopholes with estate taxes as well.
HOWEVER: The rich *do* pay more in taxes, contrary to popular
belief. "the top 1 percent of Americans paid 33.4 percent of
their expanded cash income (a broad measure of pretax income) in
federal taxes. Middle class Americans*or those in the middle 20
percent*pay 13.7 percent of their income to federal taxes, while
the poorest pay 3.1 percent."