Individually the rich do spend more than the poor however when agrigated the poor spend more this is because the poor spend on average 98% of everything taken in. consider that there are only 15 million stupidly rich people(if you include their children in the mechanic) in the US (more than generous figure considering i don't consider 250k a year applicable but for the sake of argument lets include that income range) roughly 5% of the population.Then you have the other 95% of the population who tend to spend 30-50% more of their total income per year, when you add up the totals giving all the gains to the 5% in a consumer economy has a negative economic effect as the money made is not efficiently spent buying useless crap.
True... even more egregious is the fact that middle class incomes are forced to spend nearly all their income, just to live... which means that nearly ALL their income is sales or otherwise taxed. ( except in those states without sales or VAT taxes)
The truly rich, however, do NOT spend the majority of their income in ways that are taxed...
It matters not that they tend to buy more expensive things... its that 80% of their income or more is simply 'rolled over' into more stock or other interest earning ventures....
As a result, their Untaxed income accumulates and earns returns... whereas the middle and lower class incomes are denied this avenue to wealth.
This is WHY income taxes are supposed to be higher for the wealthy... to make taxation more equitable, and to allow the government to supply the masses with the things their incomes would not allow them to provide on their own ( like decent streets, schooling, and, hopefully, health care )
The rich simply no longer CARE about the middle class in America. Back in the day, the middle class was where they made their money... but American markets are no longer growing, except by the rate of immigration.
Money we let the "job creators" keep untaxed is abandoning the US, to invest in the growth markets of China and India...
They would rather stimulate 1.6 billion potential consumers in China, than try to help keep a mere 300 million Americans heads above water.
All you not actually rich conservatives? Pull your heads out of your collective asses and realize you are being sold down the river by people who could give a shit about you.
The GOP raided the US treasury over the previous 10 years to the tune of 3 or 4 trillion dollars of your taxes that they handed out in no bid corporate welfare.
They tell you government is bad, while the spend millions to get a job in government.
They want to underfund government so that the only power in this country is that of wealth.
But, think about it... In a representative democratic county...
YOU are the government. By the people, for the people, right?
In shortchanging government, the people they want to shortchange are the electorate.
Wake up.