You can tax the rich all you want they will just avoid paying the taxes.
They don't even know what "rich" means, to the useful idiots it's just "anyone who makes more then me". I used the 200K figure because that would be a combined household income of 100K per parent, which isn't ***nowadays. This is because jobs that would pay 100K per year are in area's where the housing cost and taxes are astronomical. Going from a monthly $800 USD rent to $2000 USD rent for the exact same living standard is what happens. Utility bills triple because half the cost is a flat "service and transmission fee" that you pay regardless of usage.
The largest tax for the middle class is the national income tax, which is charged as a fixed percentage based on total household income and doesn't respect those extremely localized cost of living adjustments. It ends up killing middle class professional workers. Anyone can go here and put in two different cities just to see the ridiculous swing in basic costs.
http://www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-living/
The bottom half of the US population pays zero or near zero income tax, that's 50% of US workforce not putting much into the pool meaning the remaining 50% must make up for it. The wealthy all have their income structured in such a way as to minimize tax liability, they pay much less as a percentage then the middle class workers do. If anyone is talking any "income" that is less then seven figures then they are not referring to wealthy people.
Liberal tax policies are stupidly regressive, they blatantly steal money from the middle class and use it to buy votes from the poor while simultaneously keeping the poor in a state to need those handouts. Those policies are designed to generate a welfare state and they use emotional language to bully people into submitting to them.