And, that's the problem with the tax system.

Financial resource that previously went to labor in order to sustain the sector of society that comprises "labor", now bypasses and goes to that 2% (the owners of the mechanized processes, for instance), without any mechanism for that redirected wage resource to be used to sustain.

The "Citizens United" characterized movement's con was that it was wise, good, and/or fair to permit that to happen.  Wages move away from the one broad group of humans, and down a bottlneck into the hands of a few.

It's why Trump supporters don't have enough money to pay for health insurance, and why government doesn't have the money to just provide it, no questions asked.

Government IS the answer to correcting that imbalance.  The answer is simply to take (or tax) the re-directed amounts and just put it back into the sustanence pool.  Not luxuries.  Sustenance.  There's simply no excuse for not doing so.