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."