Once someone when told, "The wealthy pay most of the taxes" made the humorous reply, "That's because the rest of us do most of the work."  And notice, the ownership of wealth producing assets and offshoring has so much advantage now that there ARE NO "other places to work" or compete for wages. Look up "real wages since 1973" perhaps?  Unenforced  anti-trust laws (hey, you using Comcast to post this btw?) limit choice and fair market value.  As for staying informed, you can walk ouside and see the proof in the damaged streets around you. You ever see that pre-Reagan?  Walmart, and the Waltons, absolutely do not pay enough taxes to even repair the roads they use.  OUR roads & their trucks that carry it's and others profitable merchandise. Carbon burning trucks damaging the roads at about 5,000 times the rate of an ordinary auto.  The Panama Papers tell us about the avoidance of billions maybe trillions in taxes (tax debt born our kids and the employees btw)- its all nonsense, of course.